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.
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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.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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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.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
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It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
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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.
