Valerie Plame Quotes
I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.
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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
