James Clapper Quotes

The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.

James Clapper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.

Jerry Yang

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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

John Cheever

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I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

Melissa McCarthy

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I can throw out any man alive.

Johnny Bench

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal

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Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

Steven Hall

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That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

Sid Waddell

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But I think it's important that things endure.

Robin Day

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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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My proposal is one of national reconciliation, of national pacification. I've already said this many times, but what I propose is a government that could act as a national salvation.

Michel Temer

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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

Collis Potter Huntington

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Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

Ariel Levy

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