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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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..."

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

  Tom Clancy

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

  Tom Clancy

  Inspirational, Teeth, Want

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

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• Success will ruin your life.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Ruins

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

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• Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Helicopters, Rejects

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tom Clancy

  Writing, Simple, Trying

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

  Tom Clancy

  Squares, Miles

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Home, Gun, Law

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• The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, Library, Way

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Mar 11, 2014

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Running, Country, Destiny

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• I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Memorable, Names

  "King Of The 'Techno-thriller'" by Patrick Anderson, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

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  Country, America, People

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.448, Penguin

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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.

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  Memorable, Doe, Matter

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

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• Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Book, Writing

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• It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

  Tom Clancy

  Thinking, Tools, Use

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.80, Penguin

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