Kim Philby Quotes

To betray, you must first belong.

Kim Philby

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• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • America
  • Wilderness

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Hand
  • Brother
  • Stupid

• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Real
  • Together
  • Think

• We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Job
  • Health

• Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Poverty
  • Living
  • Security

• I want Bolivians to support their president.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Want
  • Support
  • President

• If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Right

• I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Painting
  • Wall

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Time
  • Saying

• I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Understand

• I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Material

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Free
  • Alone

• Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Eyes
  • Star
  • Blue

• L'existence du Soldat est (après la peine de mort) la trace la plus douloureuse de barbarie qui subsiste parmi les hommes.

  

  Alfred de Vigny

• I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Matter

• Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Love
  • Principles
  • Abstract

• All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

  

  Amber Naslund
  • World
  • Changes
  • Measurement

• ...it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Mother
  • Cruel
  • Disgustingly

• To betray, you must first belong.

  

  Kim Philby