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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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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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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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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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
