I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.


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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
ISAAC MOPHATLANE
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
ISAAC ASIMOV
What goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTON
All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way t...
ISAAC MARION
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...
ISAAC ASIMOV
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
ISAAC NEWTON
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
ISAAC ASIMOV
What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts mis...
ISAAC MARION
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in a...
ISAAC MARION
My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, bec...
ISAAC MARION
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
ISAAC ASIMOV
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
ISAAC ASIMOV
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a...
ISAAC ASIMOV
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...
ISAAC ASIMOV
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...
ISAAC ASIMOV
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber aga...
ISAAC WATTS
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm...
ISAAC ASIMOV
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, b...
ISAAC ROSENFELD
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
ISAAC DISRAELI
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC DISRAELI
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe...
ISAAC ASIMOV
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from sc...
ISAAC ASIMOV
Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
ISAAC ASIMOV
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
ISAAC DISRAELI
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of...
ISAAC ASIMOV
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOV
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...
ISAAC ASIMOV
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning...
ISAAC ASIMOV
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every...
ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE
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ISAAC ASIMOV
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
ISAAC DISRAELI
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
ISAAC GOLDBERG