James R. Clapper Quotes
I was a part of the decision-making in the Pentagon, when I was the undersecretary for intelligence, to start CYBERCOM, both as a sub-unified command and under a dual-hat arrangement. That was never intended to be permanent in any event.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors - from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato - astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook.
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France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them.
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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I was a part of the decision-making in the Pentagon, when I was the undersecretary for intelligence, to start CYBERCOM, both as a sub-unified command and under a dual-hat arrangement. That was never intended to be permanent in any event.
