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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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
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I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.
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What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade in Indian slaves as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
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Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.
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Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.
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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.
