Isaac Asimov Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
