Aldrich Ames Quotes
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
Quotes to Explore
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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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As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.
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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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the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.
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How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?
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Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
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The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.
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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.
