Isaac Asimov Quotes
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Nobody gets through life on a pass.
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I thought work and family complete life. Aarti's enthusiasm and energy levels made me realise that life can be even more wholesome and fuller.
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... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
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Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
