Barton Gellman Quotes
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.
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I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
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I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.
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My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
