Ashton Carter Quotes

I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation.

Ashton Carter

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• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Age
  • Death
  • Free

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Death
  • Become
  • Destroyer

• My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Silly

• A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Long
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Worry
  • Gay

• I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

  

  Kajol
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Color

• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hockey

• I've always lived in the moment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis

• All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • War

• I really wanted to get drafted by the Knicks, and it was a dream come true. I wasn't even hearing the boos that night. I was just having a special moment with my family, hugging them.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Family
  • True
  • Dream

• I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Right

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • God
  • America
  • Today

• I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation.

  

  Ashton Carter
  • America
  • Security
  • Conclusions