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Tom Clancy Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013

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Loss Say Right Out Gain Vietnam

You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.

Time Experience Mountains Start You

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.

Love Age Love Is Crazy Think Done

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.

Work Love Change People Pride Down

There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.

Nothing Rock More Hard Seems Metal

If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.

You Look Try Trends Old Hold

My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.

Borders Obsession Unhealthy James

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

Literature Television Acting Up Read

There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.

Home Influence Texas Political Class

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Easy Look Situation Kind Living Big

I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.

I Am Christian Scotland Muslim Am

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

Man Wise Wise Man He Much Ought

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Work Training School Cake Makeup

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