Isaac Asimov Quotes
Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
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We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
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We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
