Isaac Asimov Quotes
'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
