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I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful. -- Donna Dixon
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free. -- Alex Berenson
Spies and parents never sleep. -- Linda Gerber
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes. -- George Herbert
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. -- Sun Tzu
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case. -- Nathan Hale
Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move. -- Sun Tzu
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. -- Thomas Hobbes
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. -- Michael Weston
Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth. -- Matt Nix
Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove. -- David Weber
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. -- Jane Austen
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. -- William Shakespeare
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. -- Jack Adams
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course. -- Christopher Koch
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist. -- Anthony Horowitz
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave. -- Christine Keeler
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery. -- Barry Eisler
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. -- Steve Forbes
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. -- John Updike
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. -- Gary Oldman
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. -- Robert Jenkins
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe. -- Richard C. Armitage
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War. -- Noel Gallagher
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. -- Jane Harman
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence? -- Tony Gilroy
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it. -- Jeremy Northam
Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes. -- Barton Gellman
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. -- John le Carre
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express. -- Morley Safer
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence. -- Matt LeBlanc
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. -- Jess Walter
I was a big fan of this guy named Art Bell - I don't know if you've heard of him before. I listened to his overnight show for years, and he had all these guys on at one time or another, and they talked about psychic spies and remote viewing and all that stuff. I actually was fascinated by it - more about the guys than about what they were doing. -- Grant Heslov
Women have always been spies -- Harriet Rubin
Our side has agents. Their side has spies. -- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. -- Alexis De Veaux
The life of spies is to know, not bee known. -- George Herbert
Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact. -- Marco Rubio
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. -- Sun Tzu
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred. -- George Washington
Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell. -- Suzy Kassem
It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? -- John le Carre
Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. -- Sun Tzu
I planted a plant in the midst of spies, who were disguised as farmers. -- Jarod Kintz
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. -- Ally Carter
The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell. -- Suzy Kassem
He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens. -- Rush Limbaugh
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I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes. -- Alan Furst
Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control. -- Karen Azinger
I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing. -- Kresley Cole
It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly. -- Sun Tzu
The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors. -- James Comey
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. -- Shelagh Delaney
But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium. -- James Dashner
With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us. -- Evan Meekins
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps." -- Steve Forbes
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind. -- Mort Sahl
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes. -- E. M. Forster
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' -- Barry Eisler
Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting. -- Doug Liman
I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy. -- Nick Harkaway
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. -- Charles Caleb Colton
As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert. -- Michael Weston
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes. -- Maxim Gorky
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger. -- Friedrich Schiller
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them. -- Karen Abbott
The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I. -- Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. -- Elia Kazan
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. -- Charles Bass
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you. -- Sun Tzu
At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies. -- Doug Liman
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe. -- Richard C. Armitage
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case. -- John le Carre
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. -- William Henry Ashley
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. -- George Orwell
The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies. -- Daniel Handler
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader. -- Aristotle
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. -- John le Carre
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what? -- Eric Ambler

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