Karl Schroeder Quotes

I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

Karl Schroeder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 4, 1962

Topics

TimeProgressEffortMoonPolitical

CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.

Joe Barton

NormalDefinitionAnyCO2Term

In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.

Andrei Sakharov

MyselfProblemsOverPointIssues

If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!

Maxine Waters

CommunityPeopleCareerDoneNever

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

Amy Adams

GoodGymnasticsAboutReally

My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work.

Stephanie Szostak

LifeWorkBusinessBestSchoolMom

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

Stacey Dash

YouFindWantNeedOverObstacle

I never start anything 'I want to be No. 1. I want to win Grand Slam.' For me, no. It's always step by step. The only thing I want to do, it's to push the limit.

Stan Wawrinka

StepMeWinStartPushWant

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

Tom Heinsohn

TeamBasketballGameDownWrongWay

Most people think I am very nice; they think I'm their friend, which is lucky, but it means you're never allowed to be in a bad mood. They take it personally. The worst is when you're on holiday with your family.

Romain Duris

FamilyFriendI AmPeopleThinkYou

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'

Lobsang Tenzin

ChildhoodCompetitionFreeGreed

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Jonathan Lethem

BecomeTryTooAnyRegularAddict

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Chris Martin

GoodHorseTryEndangered Species

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