John le Carre Quotes

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 19, 1931

Topics

GreatWarColdSixtiesCold War

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

Jimmy John Liautaud

LiveRealityYouHappenHappening

I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.

Joe Kennedy III

ThoughtQuestionsNextGiveWhole

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

Melvin Van Peebles

ChicagoKidSideNumberSouth

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

Rob Reiner

PeopleWorldThinkSmartestJews

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.

Mitt Romney

GrowthBackWillEconomyThrough

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

Jason Calacanis

WorkTechnologyVacationWeekWould

Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings, and you come out and fight.

Don Rickles

FightYouFighterWhyBellOut

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

ImaginationBeginsVulgarityExplicit

I am a black belt in martial arts. I like to drink scotch. I go skydiving. So I never really saw myself as a woman or a minority. I just went out there and did my thing, and it didn't even cross my mind.

Cheryl Yeoh

MyselfWomanI AmMindBlackGo

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.

Cheech Marin

ArtGlassInterestStartedFine

Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.

Anupam Kher

TimeActingNewProjectLevelFilm

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

Piper Perabo

SkyTexasCloudHotSunnyAlways

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