Isaac Asimov Quotes
Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?
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Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.
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In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
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I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.
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Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
