Larry Niven Quotes
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I don't like possessions.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.
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In one war, there are a thousand wars within that war--each one private, singular, inaccessible, a fragment, a piece of a larger whole, parallel yet forever separate. And all we do in life is struggle with our impoverished efforts to put our war into words. I don't believe most of us ever succeed in our translations. It's an art most of us never conquer. That's why we argue with one another. We're like countries--each of us clinging to our separate histories. We're fighting one another about our translations, about what really happened. Which is another kind of war.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.
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When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
