Tom Clancy Quotes - Page 4

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• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success

  Tom Clancy

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Jobs, Military

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• Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Guy, Computer

  "Escape The Pace: 100 Fun And Easy Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy Your Life". Book by Lisa Rickwood, 2002.

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• Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

  Tom Clancy

  Believer, True Believer, Conscience

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• Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

  Tom Clancy

  Bullets, October, Wells

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• Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

  Tom Clancy

  Said, Officers, Civilians

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.53, Penguin

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• I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

  Tom Clancy

  Years, Spy, Cia

  "What Do 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' See?". "Larry King Live Weekend", transcripts.cnn.com. August 27, 2000.

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• Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

  Tom Clancy

  Hate, People, Catholic

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• My life is a very simple life thank you

  Tom Clancy

  Simple, Simple Life, Life Is

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• The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

  Tom Clancy

  Men, Justice, Goal

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.42, Penguin

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• People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.

  Tom Clancy

  Smart, People, Information

  "Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly". Tom Clancy's post, clancyfaq.com, February 12, 2000.

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• She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Ink, Kind

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• If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

  Tom Clancy

  Believe, Hero, Fighting

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2366, Penguin

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• The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Directors, Hollywood

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• I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

  Tom Clancy

  People, Complaining, Idiot

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

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• It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

  Tom Clancy

  Loss, Lost Friendship, Vietnam

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• In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

  Tom Clancy

  Photography, Looks, Unions

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

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• Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

  Tom Clancy

  Hockey, Ice, Unions

  Tom Clancy (1989). “The Cardinal of the Kremlin”, p.175, Penguin

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, America, People

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

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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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• A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

  Tom Clancy

  Funny, Dog, Lawyer

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• Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.

  Tom Clancy

  Knows, Dies

  "Without Remorse".

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• Surviving is much more painful than death.

  Tom Clancy

  Painful, Surviving

  Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney (2013). “Command Authority”, p.306, Penguin

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• When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.

  Tom Clancy

  God, House, Stupidity

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• America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Memorable, America

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

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