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James Clapper Quotes

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.

James Clapper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You Back Country Creation Days

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

New York Loved Literature Year New

For each book, the time is also broken up.

Stephen R. George

Time Broken Book Up Each Also

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.

Mike Nichols

Learning Good New York Me Acting

I wouldn't go blonde. I'd like to do a darker color - a really dark, dark red.

Lourdes Leon

Red Color Blonde Dark Go Like

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

Diane Mott Davidson

Money Cooking Learn You Student

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley

Failure Teacher Saying End Doing

When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

Bobby Knight

Sports History Best Team Start More

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Brian Skerry

Sea Water Start Deep Perfect Sharks

I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.

Antonin Scalia

Love Loved Always Out Point May

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

William Hazlitt

Smart Fall Apple Why Observe Saw

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

Syd Barrett

Work Good Done Two Years Last

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

Paul Weyrich

Touch First Audience Being Able