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 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 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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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 the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
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I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.
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The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.
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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.
