Isaac Asimov Quotes
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.
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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
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You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
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I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
