John le Carre Quotes
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Ian Hacking -
I actually like football a great deal.
H. G. Bissinger -
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
Paris Hilton -
I always like to sing barefoot.
Idina Menzel -
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied -
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Adam Hamilton -
I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
Maddie Hasson -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
Octavia E. Butler -
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Larry Kramer -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
Idris Elba -
I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
K. Flay -
If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
Patrick Whitesell -
There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
Zach Anner -
I feel happy to terrify kids.
R. L. Stine -
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way and what returns is what existed prior to the dollar standard, and that is a global gold standard, which is the only thing that really works.
Peter Schiff -
I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.
Jessie Buckley -
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Where do those golden rainbows end? Why is this song so sad? Dreaming the dreams I've dreamed my friend Loving the love I love To love is just a word I've heard when things are being said Stories my poor head has told me cannot stand the cold And in between what might have been and what has come to pass A misbegotten guess alas and bits of broken glass…
James Taylor -
'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
Adam Hughes -
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John le Carre