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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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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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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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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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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When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.
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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
