Isaac Asimov Quotes
Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
