Isaac Asimov Quotes

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

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• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Politics
  • Now

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• Lovers should also have their days off.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Lovers
  • Days
  • Off

• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Work
  • Money
  • Kids

• It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Always
  • Difficult
  • Lie

• I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Happy
  • Feelings

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Team
  • Pain
  • Football

• Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Real
  • Ignorance
  • Intelligence

• So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Me
  • Project

• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Progress
  • Trouble
  • California

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Up
  • Dad

• A singer must be able to sing any kind of song

  

  S. Janaki
  • Song
  • Able
  • Singers

• All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Wise

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Trying
  • School
  • Freedom

• The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Wise
  • Stupid