Isaac Asimov Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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It's hard for us to pay $200 million for properties that don't make money.
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I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.
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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.