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Isaac Asimov
Related My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side. GRANT ACHATZ Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard. CATHERINE GASKIN I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-in... DAVID MAMET I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-invo... DAVID MAMET I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching telev... JOHNNY CASH No matter what I've endured in the past, what I've put myself through, or what others have done to m... LILY COLLINS Whenever these guys come back they always get into a fete match situation but now they have somethin... LINCOLN PHILLIPS I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and ... E. L. JAMES All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea... KATHRYN MAGENDIE I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. WILLIAM SHATNER Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel... JOSE JAMES May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. PAUL DICKSON Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with... ANN RICHARDS Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo... PAMELA DEAN For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my... MICHIO KAKU Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cyni... JOHN LYDON I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love... DEBRA MESSING I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I ... TONY BENNETT No matter how the future fasts forward, there is always something to look back and re-appreciate thi... LEAH DANCEL To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster! ISAAC ASIMOV What lasts in the reader’s mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tea... ISAAC ASIMOV I Have Endured Ultimate Pain From My Past And Choose To Move Forward With Hope. B A LINGLE Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn... R.D. CLYDE Is everything normal now?” “Well he hasn’t got religious mania, and he isn’t running a... ISAAC ASIMOV I always look up to girls like Beyonce or Anna Kournikova. Girls who do something well but also look... ALANA BLANCHARD I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I ... DEBRA MESSING I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, wher... SABINE BARING-GOULD I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to dema... GERALDINE BROOKS Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. GENE FOWLER I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantas... ROBERT KAZINSKY I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn... ADAM SILVERA I look forward to proving something to myself and others. ERIC LINDROS I'm ready to get out there and start going now, but I know I have to keep it within myself and take ... JEFF URLAUB I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and ... EDAN LEPUCKI I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so... ROBERT DUVALL When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertim... ED WESTWICK I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road ... RICHARD LINKLATER I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served ... ELIE DUCOMMUN To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How... TOM GLAZER Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am alwa... EMILY BRONTë When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it... MAGGIE STIEFVATER The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. CORY DOCTOROW I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f... KURT VONNEGUT Some readers may realize that this story, first published in 1956, has been overtaken by events. In ... ISAAC ASIMOV I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' b... CATHERINE HARDWICKE I have a rule that I don't review shows from photographs or from video. I certainly might go bac... ROBIN GIVHAN When people look back on my life the one and only honor I can hope for is respect. That even though ... NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the tim... IDOWU KOYENIKAN In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fakat artık dünyanın ne olduğunu biliyordu: Özgürlüğün sınırsızlığıyla kuşatılmış... ISAAC ASIMOV Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the... ISAAC ASIMOV Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and diffi... IRINA SHAYK I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s... WINSTON CHURCHILL I want my party to be a place where something is always going on, with one condition -- that what go... MATTHIAS PLATZECK You have to go so much because you have things to do and you have to go to work, but some of the ple... HENRY WINTER The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr... TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appen... MARY SHELLEY I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my fa... BROOKLYN DECKER I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five m... URS FISCHER It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes e... HELEN KELLER I look forward to getting more and more involved with them. I hope I'll be able to contribute some c... BOB BONDI She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm s... BRET EASTON ELLIS As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. BEN GIBBARD Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things. LIONEL HAMPTON I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hu... JOHN PHILIP SOUSA I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER Always have something to look forward to. DAVID BECKHAM His birthday is something I do enjoy pointing out or celebrating or recognizing myself personally, b... DALE EARNHARDT JR I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, becaus... JACK ANTONOFF I don't really ever have to tell myself to seize the day. It's just, whenever I'm not, I feel like I... ADI ALSAID I don't really ever have to tell myself to seize the day. It's just, whenever I'm not, I feel like I... ADI ALSAID When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most i... RIHANNA Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or g... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a... HARLAND WILLIAMS Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with so... EDWARD HIRSCH I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach.... RANDY COUTURE I'm happy with it, but I didn't sing it as well as I should have. I've had some problems with my voi... JANI LANE In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women f... GORDON B. HINCKLEY As long as they had some kind of ball in their hand or watching some sporting event on television, t... SHARON HODGES The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public... SIDNEY SHELDON Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom woul... MAYA ANGELOU I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dres... ANNE ROBINSON I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze bac... SCOTT MCCLOUD I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn... MARY DECKER I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - wr... CARLY CRAIG Watching on television, after a while, gets to ya, and you have to either shut the TV off or go do s... BILL ALLEN I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or ... ALAN MOORE I've been writing some new stuff, and I can't wait to start the next record, ... I'm probably going ... JESSE MCCARTNEY I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to ... ALAN PARSONS For the last year and a half, I'm actually really enjoying myself on stage, ... Before I was happy w... DEAN TORRENCE For the last year and a half, I'm actually really enjoying myself on stage. Before I was happy we co... DEAN TORRENCE Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say,... DOUGLAS WOOD Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on. I am atte... IDOWU KOYENIKAN I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new... BILL MUMY My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about house... TAYLOR SCHILLING
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ISAAC ASIMOV Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic... ISAAC ASIMOV Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you ... ISAAC ASIMOV History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing ... ISAAC ASIMOV I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with s... ISAAC ASIMOV Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so)... ISAAC ASIMOV Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for th... ISAAC ASIMOV It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No... ISAAC ASIMOV violence is the last resource of incompetence ISAAC ASIMOV All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end. ISAAC ASIMOV Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I... ISAAC ASIMOV Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, si... ISAAC ASIMOV A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of consi... ISAAC ASIMOV A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually rem... ISAAC ASIMOV There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. N... ISAAC ASIMOV If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. I... ISAAC ASIMOV That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I bel... ISAAC ASIMOV University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now ... ISAAC ASIMOV A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written ISAAC ASIMOV A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First o... ISAAC ASIMOV The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European... ISAAC ASIMOV To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to... ISAAC ASIMOV A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [Th... ISAAC ASIMOV I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ISAAC ASIMOV Nunca dejes que la moral te impida dejar de hacer lo que está bien ISAAC ASIMOV It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn ISAAC ASIMOV The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eure... ISAAC ASIMOV To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ISAAC ASIMOV