Before this whole affair, no one would ever have thought of her as an undercover agent … She wasn't mysterious … She was sort of a working soccer mom.
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David Tillotson, a next-door neighbor, as quoted in "Private Spy and Public Spouse Live at Center of Leak Case" by Scott Shane in The New York Times (5 July 2007)Valerie Plame
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In the Bernstein Manual there is a short chapter on undercover work. The first line says, in capital letters, AVOID UNDERCOVER WORK.
Eoin Colfer
There was a comfort in the thought, a strange sort of personal comfort in being able to believe that some intelligence might have solved the riddle of that mysterious equation of the universe. And how, perhaps, that mysterious equation might tie in with the spiritual force that was idealistic brother to time and space and all those other elemental factors that held the universe together.
Clifford D. Simak
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.
Herbert Marcuse
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele
[On David Beckham's first soccer game in America] Americans learned a lot about soccer that day; for instance, it's played by people who are over 10 years old.
Joel McHale
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