Barry McCaffrey Quotes
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
