Isaac Asimov Quotes
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.
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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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There was that one scene that involved three night elves, a tauren, and two bottles of molasses but that got nixed right out of the box, darn it!
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I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.
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I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'
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I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff.
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Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
