John le Carre Quotes
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I take my work seriously.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.
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The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
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Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
