Clearance Quotes

• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Ideas, Age

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• Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.

  Sargent Shriver

  Jobs, Worry, Firsts

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• I guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

  Wil Wheaton

  Real, Doctors, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.

  Wanda Sykes

  Secret, Yeah, Top Secret

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

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• Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Finals

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• Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Trump, Security

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jobs, Military, Years

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Years, People

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• The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the creation process. Then after the creation, there are producer fees, mixing, mastering, photo shoots, artwork, packaging, artist feature fees, legal fees, clearances, and so on that must be covered before any music can officially be released to the public.

  Mya

  Artist, Self, Challenges

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I'm not in those top secret meetings, nor would it be appropriate - the president can't tell me what's hap - what's being said in a top secret meeting unless I have top secret clearance. I will eventually be in those meetings.

  Reince Priebus

  Secret, President, Said

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm not the president, so the president, has top secret clearance immediately. I don't. It takes time.

  Reince Priebus

  Secret, President, It Takes Time

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.

  Chanakya

  Kings, Successful, Two

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• I had the evidence that a crash did happen... I ask [you] this, were you there with me? Did you have the clearances? They can't answer these questions, they simply criticize with no evidence.

  Philip J. Corso

  Answers, Crash, Criticize

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• The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

  David Knopfler

  Challenges, Needs, Statistics

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• Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.

  Dan Poynter

  Ocean, Book, Writing

  "The Future Of Children's Books". "All Things Considered" with Mary Louise Kelly, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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• I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?

  Eve Ensler

  Insecure, People, Focus

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.13, Villard

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• If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather

  Roberto Duran

  Fighting, Would Be, Want

  "Even at 55, Roberto Duran packs a wallop". Interview with Arturo Sanchez, www.espn.com. September 27, 2006.

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• Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cities, World, Adequate

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• I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Heart, Garden, Site

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.2216, e-artnow

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• The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Order, President, Denial

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, School, Eye

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.258, Best Books on

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• She [Hillary Clinton] was extremely careless with handling national security information.If she were just an ordinary person, she would be denied a top security clearance because she has proved in her past acts that she is extremely careless in handling national security information.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Past, Ordinary, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

  Kofi Annan

  Home, Rights, Blue

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• Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Cutting, Moon, Men

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• For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Heart, Mean, Night

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

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