James R. Clapper Quotes

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

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• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Myself

• What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Thought

• I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Never

• As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Run

• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.

  

  Halima Aden
  • American
  • Culture
  • Things

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Death
  • Songs

• Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Fun
  • Sick
  • Missing

• You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Champion
  • Speed
  • Believed

• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Equality

• Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Action
  • Criticism
  • Guide

• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Deal
  • Manhood
  • Respecting

• The death of the victim doesn't change the validity of the charges in any way. It sort of strengthens the prosecution's case.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Death
  • Victim
  • Charges

• I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.

  

  James Wolfensohn

• If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Money
  • Age
  • Song

• ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

  

  James R. Clapper