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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.

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

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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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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

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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.

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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 life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.

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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.

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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

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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.

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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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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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The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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The good old days are now.

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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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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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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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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.

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Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

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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.

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I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

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Success will ruin your life.

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The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

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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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The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

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What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

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Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

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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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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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