James R. Clapper Quotes

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

James R. Clapper

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Know
  • Like
  • Strangers

• When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Home
  • Passion

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Like
  • Things
  • Would

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.

  

  Kat Graham
  • You
  • Try
  • Afraid

• The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Love
  • Why

• I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Laugh
  • Admire

• We will keep pounding ISIL and taking out their leaders, and pushing them back on the ground. And united with a global coalition, we will destroy this barbaric terrorist group. They will be destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Destroy
  • Leaders
  • Ground

• If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Twin

• Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Together

• While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Horse

• The most unfair things that could have happened in a society fell upon a blind man. This is something that no one can accept or explain away with any excuse. Everyone will ask: 'Do we actually have to exist in a society like this?'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Society

• Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Life
  • Sorry

• Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Different
  • Real
  • Hope

• YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Simple

• Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

  

  Markus Persson
  • People
  • Money
  • Fun

• The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

  

  Albert Barnes
  • God
  • Soul
  • Desire

• What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

  

  James R. Clapper