Tom Clancy Quotes - Page 3

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• Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Collaboration, Unnatural

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• Success will ruin your life.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Ruins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

  Tom Clancy

  Believe, Fans, Mail

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• No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Doe, Matter

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

  Tom Clancy

  Philosophy, Self Pity, Contradiction

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• Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Men, Action

  Tom Clancy (2003). “Red Rabbit”, p.47, Penguin

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

  Tom Clancy

  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Loser, Show Me

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Politics, Rewards

  Tom Clancy, Martin Greenberg (2000). “Tom Clancy SSN”, p.265, Penguin

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• One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Weather, Flying

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.136, Penguin

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• The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Technology, Today

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

  Tom Clancy

  Loneliness, Luxury, Privacy

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2420, Penguin

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• Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Mean, Men

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• Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

  Tom Clancy

  Jobs, Men, Rights

  Tom Clancy (2002). “The Sum of All Fears”, p.323, Penguin

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• Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

  Tom Clancy

  Writing, Golf, Play

  "Tom Clancy on Writing The Hunt for Red October", www.amc.com.

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• I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

  Tom Clancy

  Ideas, Important, Principles

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.459, Penguin

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• Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

  Tom Clancy

  Fleeting, Strange, Lost

  Tom Clancy (2001). “The Bear and the Dragon”, p.13, Penguin

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• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success

  Tom Clancy

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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• Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Real, Lying

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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• The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Jobs, Military

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• I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

  Tom Clancy

  Real, Memorable, Stuff

  The New York Times, July 27, 1986.

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• Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

  Tom Clancy

  What If, Novel, Happened

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• People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.

  Tom Clancy

  Smart, People, Information

  "Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly". Tom Clancy's post, clancyfaq.com, February 12, 2000.

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• She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Ink, Kind

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• 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

  Memorable, Guy, Computer

  "Escape The Pace: 100 Fun And Easy Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy Your Life". Book by Lisa Rickwood, 2002.

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