Isaac Asimov Quotes
It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.
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I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
