Valerie Plame Quotes
Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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I can always go back to education.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
