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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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 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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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
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He wants to be the best and he wants to prove that he deserves to be where I am, so why not call me out? But I’ll fuck him up if we fight though.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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I've always had difficulties with female characters.
