Tom Clancy Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

  Tom Clancy

  Wall, College, People

  Tom Clancy (2004). “The Teeth Of The Tiger”, p.157, Penguin

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• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

  Tom Clancy

  Wise, Real, Mistake

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

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• The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

  Tom Clancy

  World, Better Place, Do The Best

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.218, Penguin

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

  Tom Clancy

  Victory, Prepared

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

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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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• Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.

  Tom Clancy

  Daughter, Book, Giving

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• The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

  Tom Clancy

  Soldier, Tactics, Logistics

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• I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

  Tom Clancy

  Thinking, Intellectual, Duty

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Fighting, Winning

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

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

  Tom Clancy

  Success, Sports, Winning

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

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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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• I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, School, Sunday

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• That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Pornography, Ultimate

  "Tom Clancy, General Chuck Horner return to Desert Storm". Interview with Jamie Allen, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 1999.

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• Wars are begun by frightened men.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Memorable, Men

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

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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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• 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.

  Tom Clancy

  Hard Work, Writing, Kissing

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

  Tom Clancy

  Communication, Memorable, Technology

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