Kathleen Rubins Quotes

I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.

Kathleen Rubins

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• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Me

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wish

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Alone

• Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • America
  • Think
  • Community

• The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • American
  • Problem

• Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Stand

• Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Exercise

• At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Age

• Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Control
  • Environment
  • Military

• When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Safety

• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Die

• I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Wonder

• I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • People

• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Science
  • Faith

• Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • Hair

• If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • Order
  • Excuse

• I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Nerd