Isaac Asimov Quotes
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
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Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
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I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
