Robert Zubrin Quotes

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

Robert Zubrin

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• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Woman

• I don't make any money.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Money

• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Life
  • Character
  • True

• I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • World
  • Great
  • Thinking

• America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Sky
  • Stars
  • Squares

• I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Mundane

• Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Long
  • Writing
  • House

• I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Nerd

• We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Trust
  • Survive

• I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

  

  Alex Colville
  • Evil
  • Animal
  • Thing

• Yeah of course, it's a lot of emotions, a lot of different thoughts, it's a big thing, the biggest I've done in my life so far but still it's just a fight for me, I go in there and have fun basically. I'm doing something I love to do.

  

  Alexander Gustafsson
  • Fun
  • Fight
  • Emotions

• It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Moments
  • End

• It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Why
  • History
  • Future

• I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Songs
  • Alive
  • Performing

• To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.

  

  David Bradley
  • School
  • True
  • Opportunity

• The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Program
  • Steak