"Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.”
“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”
“It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.”
“My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.”
“Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .”
“I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.”
“Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.”
“In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.”

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