James Clapper Quotes

The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.

James Clapper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 14, 1941

Topics

LifeSuccessFailureIntelligence

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

Jenny Zhang

MeChoicesWeirdGoSayWant

Obama routinely pushed policy that pleased the tech-savvy, including his successful effort to keep broadband suppliers from giving preferential treatment to bigger web companies over individuals.

Jenna Wortham

EffortGivingOverSuccessfulBigger

I didn't not perform.

Melissa Manchester

Perform

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

Michael Eklund

ThinkActorShareI ThinkEveryHad

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

Stephen Fincher

Unconscionable

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Tracie Bennett

FearArtBestAlwaysWithoutTried

We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.

Louis Armstrong

MyselfTogetherSimpleGet Together

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

Juan Vargas

WorkGoodPoliticsMeGood Things

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

Joshua Jackson

ManLonelyOnlyVeryDated

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

Josh Tillman

LoveExperienceLove IsWritingBeen

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Jon Stewart

CharacterBodyBornHeadAdultLike

My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

MotherLegalSexSheFirstRight

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