Isaac Asimov Quotes
You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.
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If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.
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The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.
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You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.
