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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If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.
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As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I've been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.
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Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you'll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential.
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Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.
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As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with.
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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.
