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 -
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 -
Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
Bear Grylls
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger -
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
Tablo -
A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.
Isoroku Yamamoto -
For me, doing good work is important.
Anushka Shetty -
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
Jill Lepore -
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John le Carre