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

• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• 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 sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Taken
  • Present

• We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Giving
  • Hand

• If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don't call me.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I understand that it's a volatile environment. Certainly I have tough enough skin, so have at it. There's no way to properly answer that question so I won't try.

  

  Brian Billick
  • Question
  • Environment
  • Answer

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

  

  James R. Clapper