Isaac Asimov Quotes
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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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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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession-from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting-you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
