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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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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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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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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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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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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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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My character is not flawless.
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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.
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Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
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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.
