James R. Clapper Quotes
A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.
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From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
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You can get beat any day.
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Silicon Valley has been developing as a startup community for over 60-70 years. This notion that you can create something in two or five years is foolish.
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A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.
