Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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I'm basically nocturnal.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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The human condition: lost in thought.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
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Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
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'Reason', p. 63
