John le Carre Quotes
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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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.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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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.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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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.
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'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.
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I was an electrician, and now I'm in 'Electric Dreams.' It's almost bizarre.
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I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
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By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
