Larry Niven Quotes
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
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There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.
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Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
