"Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge……" — Tom Clancy
"Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us."
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105 Quotes by Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy has 105 quotes on this site.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is…
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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…
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need…
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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…
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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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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of…
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on…
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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…
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The good old days are now.
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.…
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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