Robert Kagan Quotes

Camping is something I've done all my life.

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.