Isaac Asimov Quotes
It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
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We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should be able to witness yourself and see what are the things, which are putting you down.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
