Isaac Asimov Quotes

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

  

  Tara Reid
  • America
  • Party
  • Stupid

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Know
  • Play
  • Golf

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
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• I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Think
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• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Matter
  • Rich

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
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• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Want
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  • Make It Happen

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Lucky
  • Pressure

• The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • May
  • Success

• There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Up

• I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Perfect
  • Wife

• It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • Time
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• It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
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