Valerie Plame Quotes

When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

Valerie Plame

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 13, 1963

Topics

PoliticsAccountabilityTransparency

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

Joe Morton

GoodOpportunityHeartThinkThought

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ManFamousWoodHimBecauseStuff

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

Joel Kinnaman

ThoughtLovedArtistFantastic

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

Robert Pattinson

WarPeopleChaosYouKnowSometimes

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

MeSympathyYouAnimalsSayHuman

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Jeanette Winterson

CharacterGreatMyselfConfusionDid

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Steve Albini

WomanDatingI AmCrazyYearNever

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

MarriageMotherParentsDivorceYou

New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.

Steven Adams

FoodSorryBetterAmericaNew

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

Dennis Wilson

BeachDayYouI CanWillNever

I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.

Drake

ChallengesSomeoneBackDownGoing

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

Denise Mina

FunnyLoveWritingStoryPolitical

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Valerie Plame