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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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
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Wonder is our need today, not information.
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I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
