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.
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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.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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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.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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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.
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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.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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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.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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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.
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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.
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The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
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We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
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I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.
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I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation.
