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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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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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 run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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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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Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
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With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.
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Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.
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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.
