Spider Robinson Quotes
The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
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You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
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I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
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The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
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Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
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Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.
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Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
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A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it up in Pakistan, where the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary, and our young wife in California would've picked up an item like this. And it puts out that Salafi-Wahhabi ideology that is ultimately the toxic poison that is crossing all these borders.
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.
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What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so you might print that and you might print a couple more and take elements of all three. It just depends. You're looking for the highlights. You're looking for the best elements of the scene, but preferably you'd like to have one good take that would go all the way through.
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And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
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The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
