Isaac Asimov Quotes
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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It certainly seems to me we would like to bring in the best and the brightest individuals here to participate in this republic.
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Quanquam nobis in intima naturae mysteria penetrare, indeque veras caussas Phaenomenorum agnoscere neutiquam est concessum: tamen evenire potest, ut hypothesis quaedam ficta pluribus phaenomenis explicandis aeque satisfaciat, ac si vera caussa nobis esset perspecta.
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... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
