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I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.


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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 I
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