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.'Isaac Asimov
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Carles Puigdemont -
To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
Ted Danson -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
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.
Yossi Vardi -
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.
Kate Winslet
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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.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan -
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
Salman Rushdie -
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams -
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane -
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.
Pankaj Mishra
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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.
Tatjana Patitz -
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.
Carl Hiaasen -
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.'
Raekwon -
You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
Dan Gilbert -
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia -
I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
Zooey Deschanel
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'Weasels - and stoats - and foxes - and so on. They're all right in a way - I'm very good friends with them - pass the time of day when we meet, and all that - but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then - well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.'
Kenneth Grahame -
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld -
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
Jane Leavy -
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
Patrick McGoohan -
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.'
Isaac Asimov