Robert Zubrin Quotes
In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.
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There is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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The desire for order is the only order in the world.
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We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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Before you go thinking I’m some kind of King Canute – it was my stance against programmed music that made our sound the way it was (even if I do say so myself), keeping it a hybrid of rock and dance: the sound of the future. Instead I decided to bury myself in the recording process, becoming the band’s recording engineer.
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In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'
