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 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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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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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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It is time to think about the future, and how this ongoing conflict will breed further hate, violence and terror across the world. How can we fight the ideological battle, if we do not chart the way forward towards Palestinian-Israeli peace? Our countries, united, must provide the momentum and chart the way forward towards a final, comprehensive settlement.
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I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.
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We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.
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Reading is the heart of learning, and Illinois and the nation are in the literacy emergency room showing a flat line on the education EKG. The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
