Robert Zubrin Quotes
In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.
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America should function as a Christian nation.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.
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Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
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I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.
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There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
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My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.
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When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
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My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
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Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.
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Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.
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China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.
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The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.
