John le Carre Quotes
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.John le Carre
Quotes to Explore
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge -
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
Valerie Plame -
If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
Laura Robson -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
Kamala Harris
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee -
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
AJ McLean -
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
Ed Koch
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
Abbey Clancy -
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Orlando Bloom -
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
Sam Raimi -
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin -
I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A. -
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
Karen Salmansohn -
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.
Charlie Brooker -
The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.
Emmanuel Jal -
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
John le Carre