Aldrich Ames Quotes
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily,—your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.
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Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.
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I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
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I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.
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No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.