"I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment."

-- Aldrich Ames

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“Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.”
“I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!”
“In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'”
“I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.”
“Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.”
“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
“My daughter's all grown up now compared to what she was, but I used to say, Iâ€™ve got to have my horse to where if sheâ€™s leading my horse somewhere, and sheâ€™s got a big armload of Barbies and drops something out of her hand, that son of a buck ought to stop and respect her while sheâ€™s gathering up all her dolls and not to walk on her or take advantage of her. And if Iâ€™ve done my work right, by gosh, thatâ€™s what theyâ€™ll do.”

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