Larry Niven Quotes
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.
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This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
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For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
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Mad science is my middle name.
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I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
