John le Carre Quotes
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
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I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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We must work-in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton-to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent, at face value, instead of who we are. We simply must see the people we serve.
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It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.
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I've always had difficulties with female characters.
