John le Carre Quotes
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT
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Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.
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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
