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 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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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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Character development is conflict.
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
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Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.
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Morale is faith in the man at the top.
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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
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As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
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I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
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Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
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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.
