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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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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My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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Technology has made it possible to order food, buy clothes, get a ride - anything you can think of, really - at the touch of a button. But what about having the right people near you when you need them?
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
