Robert Zubrin Quotes
People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
Quotes to Explore
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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I only write in blue ink.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
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Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.
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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
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One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.
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There's a tremendous amount of rural areas where the constituencies tell me on a regular basis that they are underserved by the availability of broadband.
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I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.
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Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.
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People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.
