James R. Clapper Quotes

I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.

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• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Night

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Small
  • Drama
  • Cricket

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
  • Will
  • Motivational

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Losing

• With cab drivers, I always say I'm from Brazil. I don't say I'm from Israel. It's happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government's policy. And I say, 'Listen, I live here. I'm a musician. I don't call the shots.'

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Live

• The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

  

  James Hillman
  • Country
  • American

• My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

  

  David Lee
  • Control
  • Cool
  • Blue

• I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really great at that. Releasing her album end of last year and being really strong in their sound, bands like Little Dragon, artists like James Blake. You know their music when you hear them. They have a really particular sound and it's really cultural and people copy that sound. You hear it in other songs and you're like 'That's a James Blake tune'.

  

  NAO
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Being

• I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • People
  • House
  • Trump