Robert Zubrin Quotes

I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'

Robert Zubrin

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fate

• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • System
  • Become
  • Oppression

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Country

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Think
  • Difficult

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Become
  • Chief
  • Minister

• There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Country
  • Model
  • Equality

• You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Country
  • Age
  • Amazing

• A great poet belongs to no country; his works are public property, and his Memoirs the inheritance of the public.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great
  • Country

• I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. The loss taught me not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Country
  • American
  • Failure

• That driving incident, I did it with my dad.  I'd sit on his lap and I drive.  We're country.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Driving

• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Country
  • Food
  • City

• I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.

  

  Chen-Ning Yang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.

  

  Kou Shibasaki
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Stock

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

  

  Lucian Freud
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Country
  • Become
  • Exploration