Aldrich Ames Quotes
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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The Steelers run a great organization.
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The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
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UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
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It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
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With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.
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I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I did a show when I was two, but I didn't start acting as a child. I wanted to go to school every day and be with my friends and really have that experience.
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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
