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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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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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
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I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
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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.
