Tom Clancy Quotes

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• Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Memorable

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• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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  Life, Witty, Truth

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

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• The good old days are now.

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  Old Days, Good Old Days

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

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• The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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  Knowledge And Power, Information Knowledge, Government

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

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• What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

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  Government, Libertarian Party, People

  "Kudlow & Cramer" Interview, September 02, 2003.

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• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

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  Dream, Real, Responsibility

  "Writers". Book by A. Deutsch, 1995.

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• Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

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  Inspirational, Learning, Hospitality

  "The Appraiser's Handbook: A Guide for Doctors". Book by Nick Lyons, Susanne Caesar, Abayomi McEwen, and John Denham, p. 11, 2006.

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• Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

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  Change, Hope, Men

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin

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• There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

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  Giving Up, Two, Way

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• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

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  Conceited, Ego, Mind

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.254, Penguin

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• Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

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  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Come Up

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

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• There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

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  Memorable, Two, People

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.180, Penguin

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• Wars are begun by frightened men.

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  War, Memorable, Men

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

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• If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

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  Inspirational, Teeth, Want

  Tom Clancy (2004). “The Teeth Of The Tiger”, p.101, Penguin

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• Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

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  Squares, Miles

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• Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

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  Sex, Taken, Mean

  "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

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• Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

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  Courage, Terrified, Know How

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• We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

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  Success, Sports, Winning

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.691, Penguin

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• (Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

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  People, Imagination, Stereotype

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• Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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  Knowledge And Power, Information Knowledge, People

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

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• About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

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  Running, Country, Destiny

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• An overnight success is ten years in the making.

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  Years, Overnight Success, Ten

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• Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

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  Home, Gun, Law

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• I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

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  Writing, Simple, Trying

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• You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Kissing

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

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