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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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..."

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

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  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.

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  Home, Gun, Law

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• Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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  Book, Collaboration, Unnatural

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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.

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  Book, Memorable, Names

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

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• Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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  Memorable, Thinking, Storyteller

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Feb 22, 2014

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• In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

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  Memorable, Men, Risk

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

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• Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

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  Victory, Prepared

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.1574, Penguin

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

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  Reading, Library, Way

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Mar 11, 2014

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• I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

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  Baby, Liars, Mean

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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.

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  Country, Jobs, Military

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

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  Real, Memorable, Stuff

  The New York Times, July 27, 1986.

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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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