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Profession: Journalist
Nationality: American
Birthday: May 20, 1958

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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

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At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

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War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

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My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

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I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill.

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After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

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Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

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In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

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Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

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These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

Richard MacDonald

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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

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They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

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I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.

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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

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At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

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