Aldrich Ames Quotes
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
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My favorite thing is when I work with anybody - crew, hair, makeup - I always love to ask who's the coolest person they've worked with in terms of who's been the kindest and most down to earth. A lot of people have said Meryl Streep.
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The songwriting style, to me, is superior... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.
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In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.
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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
