P. W. Singer Quotes

I do think we are seeing the definition of what is a carrier changing. You can turn America-class amphibious assault ships into smaller, less expensive versions of carriers. You can equip surface ships like destroyers as well as submarines with not just missiles and torpedoes but drones than can do roles traditionally performed by carrier aircraft, like surveillance or even strike, such as finding and taking out opponents' missile batteries.

P. W. Singer

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• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Art
  • Details

• I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Team
  • Football
  • Never

• I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Choose
  • Mask
  • Surgery

• Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Boat

• In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Respect
  • Doing
  • Fantasy

• The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Lost

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • War
  • Volunteer

• Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Stress

• The tragedy was that five or perhaps ten years of decent five-day-a-week analysis could have mitigated the problem significantly.

  

  Edward St Aubyn

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Kids

• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

  

  James Comey
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Police

• There's a plain girl in everybody.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • Girl

• Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Money
  • Health

• Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Education
  • Goals
  • Efficient

• I do think we are seeing the definition of what is a carrier changing. You can turn America-class amphibious assault ships into smaller, less expensive versions of carriers. You can equip surface ships like destroyers as well as submarines with not just missiles and torpedoes but drones than can do roles traditionally performed by carrier aircraft, like surveillance or even strike, such as finding and taking out opponents' missile batteries.

  

  P. W. Singer