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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Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
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Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
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The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.
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My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
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I came to the realization that I'm a child of God, and that's my identity. If this all goes tomorrow, I don't have the proverbial rug under me that can be pulled out. I'm taken care of, and there's someone who loves me.
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To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.
