James R. Clapper Quotes
The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.James R. Clapper
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Dana Carvey -
Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
R. J. Cutler -
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian McShane -
The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
Federica Mogherini -
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
Adam Davidson -
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Rachel Johnson -
'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
Nate Powell -
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies -
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
Malcolm McDowell -
I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke -
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Maajid Nawaz -
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
Edgar Wright -
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
Oliver Tambo
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
Federica Mogherini -
I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.
Jennifer Doudna -
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
Curtis Carlson -
There are things you don`t do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape.
Roman Reigns -
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. Forster -
The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
James R. Clapper