Charles McCarry Quotes

When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

Charles McCarry

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I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.

Jerry Della Femina

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I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

Joe Williams

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At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.

Robert Luskin

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Burberry was about building a relationship. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it's everybody.

Angela Ahrendts

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For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.

John Romaniello

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Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

John Thorn

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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

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Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Sue Wicks

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I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?

Tracy Morgan

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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

Michele Bachmann

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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Little Richard

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I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

Janice Dickinson

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