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  • I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

    Limits   Scripts   Fit  
    "Director Park Chan-Wook Says Another English-Language Picture In The Works, ‘Snowpiercer’ Almost Finished & Talks His Dream Genres" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2013.
  • Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

    "Why We Publish Leaks," Washington Post, 13 February 1998. The question is not whether the Post should "denounce" leaks-truly a red herring- but whether it will use leaks that put U.S. personnel in danger.
  • But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

  • If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

    "Chris Diamantopoulos Talks THE THREE STOOGES, Honor in Reviving the Characters, and the Audition Process for Moe". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2012.
  • My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

    Mean   Government   Views  
  • Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

  • The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.

    Party   Heart   America  
  • The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

    Ambition   Cities   Earth  
  • You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

  • The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

    Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
  • "What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion." "With your first being..." Kat prompted. "Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group.

    "Perfect Scoundrels". Book by Ally Carter, February 5, 2013.
  • The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There is no place where espionage is not possible.

    Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.53, Wordsworth Editions
  • An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

  • In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

  • What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

    Thinking   Cowboy   Play  
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963). Sounds like some writers.
  • All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

    War   Deception   Enemy  
  • I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.

    Truth   People   Decision  
    "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.
  • I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

  • [My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

    Real   Self   Doubt  
  • Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

  • The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

    Testimony on Internment of people of Japanese Ancestry before the House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration (Tolan Committee), 1941.
  • Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

    Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Infernal Grove (1973).
  • I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

    Love   Men   Class  
    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
  • Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

    Spy   Three   Ugly  
  • Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

    Secret   Causes   Ends  
    The New Meaning of Treason (1966). West here was referring to the work of Communists seeking to undermine democracies.
  • To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

    "Ecuador or Another Country Should Grant Asylum to Snowden, CEPR Co-Director Says". cepr.net. June 23, 2013.
  • Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

    Enjoy   Shows   Espionage  
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