Tom Clancy Quotes

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

  Tom Clancy

  Inspirational, Motivation, Memorable

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

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Witty, Truth

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

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  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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• 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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• The good old days are now.

  Tom Clancy

  Old Days, Good Old Days

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

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• Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

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  Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn, Life Is

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

  Tom Clancy

  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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• 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.

  Tom Clancy

  Dream, Real, Responsibility

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

  Tom Clancy

  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Come Up

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

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• The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

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  Bridges, Differences, People

  "O'Reilly Factor", www.freerepublic.com. September 21, 2001.

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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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• Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

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  Believe, World, Santa

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

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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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• There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

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  Reality, Names, Differences

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

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  Squares, Miles

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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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• Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

  Tom Clancy

  Inspirational, Fire, Remember

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• When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

  Tom Clancy

  Dies

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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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• 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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• 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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