Isaac Asimov Quotes
For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.'
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I would never walk off any show.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
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All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
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Being an actor, I have to blow-dry, colour, and use all sorts of products on my hair. The best-ever 'Pantene Total Damage Care' range takes care of the damage from the core. The shampoo and conditioner both have been life savers for me and have saved my hair from all the damage it goes through due to the daily styling.
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I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
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For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.'
