James R. Clapper Quotes

Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.

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• Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Start

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Justice
  • Rap
  • Vigilante

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Unknown

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Different
  • Important
  • Want

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Failure

• There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Song
  • Girl

• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Tragedy
  • Delightful

• The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • School
  • Father
  • Picture

• Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Life
  • Proud
  • Confidence

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys. Plus, Dave Matthews looks just like Forrest Gump.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • God
  • Band

• Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.

  

  James R. Clapper
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