James R. Clapper Quotes
The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a good yarn at the very least.
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People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
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Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about restricting rights and they are never really prepared to talk about what the honest tradeoffs are. One of the things we need to do a better job of is actually painting those tradeoffs.
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.
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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
