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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Art
  • Choose
  • Balancing

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• 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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Difficulties

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Spring

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Win

• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Dream
  • You
  • Blow

• Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  

  Tecumseh
  • Great
  • Country
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

  

  David Henrie
  • Money
  • Movie
  • High

• I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Words
  • Growing

• You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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