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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. "
Tom Clancy
Will
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Who
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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? "
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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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" Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. "
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" Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us. "
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Beat
" When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical. "
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" The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets. "
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" There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs. "
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Technology
" Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. "
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" I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. "
Tom Clancy
Be Real
Out
Real
" The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality. "
Tom Clancy
Reality
Role
Supposed
" Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. "
Tom Clancy
Elitist
Loser
Me
" I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. "
Tom Clancy
Spooky
Place
Me
" I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. "
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Start
Me
Place
" Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. "
Tom Clancy
Art
Different
Rules
" America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. "
Tom Clancy
World
Information
Country
" The good old days are now. "
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Good
Days
Good Old Days
" Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently. "
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Scary
Disease
Weapon
" Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. "
Tom Clancy
Way
You
Learn
" Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. "
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Them
Ground
Badly
" 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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Out
Figure
Need
" In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. "
Tom Clancy
You
Man
Risks
" 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
Vietnam
Say
Right
" Wars are begun by frightened men. "
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Wars
Begun
Frightened
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. "
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Difference
Fiction
Sense
" 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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People
Support
Fight
" Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. "
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Ultimate
Collaboration
Book
" 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. "
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Everything
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Photograph
" Success will ruin your life. "
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Your
Life
Ruin
" 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
Congress
You
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