Isaac Asimov Quotes
You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.
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There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.
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Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.
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You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe.
