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Quotes About Undercover

I knew from her deportment she was trained. Therefore likely to be working with an organization, rather than on some sort of private mission.
~ Barry Eisler
I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.
~ Edward Snowden
Era tremendamente eccitante, e pregnante, marciare al basso in quella sospensione di partigianesimo. Johnny si sentiva come può sentirsi un prete cattolico in borghese od un militare in borghese: le armi razionalmente celate sotto il vestito, il segno era sempre su di lui: partigiano in aeternum
~ Beppe Fenoglo
Thus begins a sideshow to the war itself: the undercover battle led by William Donovan and the OSS to ensure that Eastern Europe fall into the hands of Soviet Russia.
~ Bill O'Reilly
I did a few movies, but the word 'star'... I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint 'Larry Dickman' when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a 'Dirty Harry' movie. That's why he's a movie star... he's so creative.
~ Don Rickles
I feel like there are a lot of closet wrestling fans out there.
~ Box Brown
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
~ John le Carre
Yes. In the meantime, arm yourself." "I'll pick up a gun when I get back," Myron said. "No need to wait. There is a thirty-eight under your seat." Terrific. Myron reached under his seat, felt the bump. "Anything else I need to know?" "I birdied the last hole. Shot two under par for the round." "Talk about burying the lead." "I was trying to be modest." "I
~ Harlan Coben
Wow," he said, his voice as sarcastic as before. "I had no idea I was related to such an accomplished detective. Is that where you were the past couple of days? Doing undercover work? Tell me, Detective Oliviera, what else did you and your CSI team learn during your amazing investigation?" "She learned," Mr. Liu said, taking a menacing step forward, "that boys who smart off to ladies often get slapped.
~ Meg Cabot
I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
surreptitiously watching
~ Julia London
Oh, Neverfell, you're just not made for undercover work. You can't lie, my dear, and I can. Leave Madame Appeline and the Doldrums to me. Stay here and keep your head down.
~ Frances Hardinge
That was the first the FBI had heard about a brothel in Medford.
~ Bob Halloran
The French Connection?
~ Bob Mayer
It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.
~ Julie James
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
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
~ Lori Foster
they supposed to do once they got him there?" The CIA operative asked the mobster and then replied, "Apparently, he had his own people there who would get him the rest of the way into Europe.
~ Brad Thor
In college, I had an alias: I was Johnny.
~ John David Washington
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
~ Christopher Lee
Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
~ Valerie Plame
The C.I.A. was a flatter, quirkier organization—the agency was part university campus, part mad science lab, part undercover police force, part paranoid internal affairs department, and part militia.
~ Steve Coll
A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
~ Steven D. Levitt
When you're going into companies and you're secret filming, I didn't realise the amount of protection that you need legally before you can do just the slightest thing.
~ Joe Lycett