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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I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'
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When they start talking about suspending me and hurting what we're trying to do here as a basketball team, then I don't have (a) choice but to abide by it.
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If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
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He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin 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.'