Aldrich Ames Quotes
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Kids are disorganized.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.
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I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
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Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
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I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.
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A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
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I'm not a gangster, bro.
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
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It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.
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Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
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I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.
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As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
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[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
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I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
