James R. Clapper Quotes
For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!
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I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.
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If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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Acknowledging someone is an act of altruism in the first place, so converting that act of altruism into a pizza party or company fleece jacket or a gift card is fine, but it's not in keeping with spirit in which it all began.
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For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.
