Isaac Asimov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
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I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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I make music because I like making music.
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Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
