James R. Clapper Quotes

When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.

James R. Clapper

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Innocent

• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Things
  • Seen
  • Some

• I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

  

  Kaki King
  • Different
  • Single
  • Simple

• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Well
  • Jews
  • Middle East

• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Happy
  • Strong

• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Interest
  • Soldier
  • Fact

• 'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • American
  • Man
  • Me

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • May
  • Strong

• It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Said
  • Fact

• The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Blues

• We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

  

  Christopher Charles Lloyd
  • True
  • Poverty
  • Revolution

• There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Situation
  • Changing
  • Plane

• I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • World
  • Nature
  • Think

• In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)

  

  Barack Obama
  • April

• When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.

  

  James R. Clapper