Isaac Asimov Quotes

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Isaac Asimov

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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Person

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Tradition
  • Fact

• The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Attention
  • First
  • Presidential

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• 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.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Life
  • Business
  • Political

• Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Dad
  • Read
  • Minutes

• I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Dollar

• I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Life
  • Music
  • Job

• They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • World
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live