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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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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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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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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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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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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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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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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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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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
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The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.
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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.
