James R. Clapper Quotes
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.
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For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.
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What is our ideology? If l were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist. Our revolution has discovered by its methods the paths that Marx pointed out.
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I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!
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Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.
