American - Novelist | April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
Tom Clancy
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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
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People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
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I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
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Wars are begun by frightened men.
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Success will ruin your life.
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
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The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
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