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"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."
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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."
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"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."
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"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."
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"If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same."
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"Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
Ambiguity
"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."
Compromise
"You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation."
Desperation
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
People
"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
Intelligence
"In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy."
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"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."
Change
"I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
American
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
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