Isaac Asimov Quotes
I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
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Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.
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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
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If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
