Isaac Asimov Quotes
'Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.'Isaac Asimov
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer -
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
Felicia Day -
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
Mara Liasson -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
Gabrielle Union -
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
J. B. Priestley -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
Warren Ellis -
Political development should start at the grassroots.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
Zac Efron -
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
Dane Cook -
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
Ziggy Marley -
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
Natalia Makarova
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
Ram Dass -
Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.
Anna Paquin -
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
'Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.'
Isaac Asimov