Isaac Asimov Quotes
Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.
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Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?
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The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.
