Isaac Asimov Quotes
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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I'm very flirtatious, and I enjoy it.
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Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.
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Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
