Larry Niven Quotes
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	I started as a teenager going up on commercials.   
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	I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.   
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	I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.   
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	I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.   
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	I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.   
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	Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.   
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	I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.   
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	Know or listen to those who know.   
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	My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.   
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	I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.   
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	Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.   
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	I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.   
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	Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.   
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	I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.   
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	Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.   
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	I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.   
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	We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.   
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	If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.   
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	Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?   
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	I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.   
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	I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.   
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	Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.   
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	There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]   
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	In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					