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Robert D. Kaplan Quotes

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Robert D. Kaplan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 23, 1952

Topics

History Long You Look Nation Empire

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

Car Me Ideas Surprise Questions New

Rome was not built in one day.

Day Rome One Day Built

People don't become obese overnight. Allowing our children to have treats in moderation - as in trick-or-treating - is one thing, but good nutrition involves discipline that must be learned and practiced on a daily basis.

Good Daily Children Discipline Must

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Acceptance You Belief Risk Company

I was a very driven young person.

Person Young Driven Very

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

Life Hollywood Whole Does Defined

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

People Camera See Without Instrument

When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no.

Love Sea Time Me Oil Kid

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

Children Literature You Know More

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Me Listening Think You Information

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Rich Famous Clothes Bad House Way

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.

Art Performance Voice Think You Try

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