James R. Clapper Quotes

The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them.

James R. Clapper

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• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Mountain

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Country
  • Animals

• You're gifted to do something.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • You
  • Something
  • Gifted

• Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Time
  • God
  • Love

• It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Always
  • Show
  • Most

• I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Quality
  • Film
  • Realistic

• While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Funny

• It was at St. Mary’s that I met and learned to love the greatest man I’ve ever known. His name was Brother Matthias. He was the father I needed. He taught me to read and write - and he taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Father
  • Brother

• I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Romantic

• I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

  

  Megan Gallagher
  • Parents

• I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Good
  • Sorry
  • Self

• The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them.

  

  James R. Clapper