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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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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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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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
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Could one die from boredom, she wondered? From complete, oppressive, crushing, unmitigated boredom, the likes of which made all other boredom seem like ecstasy’s sweet thrilling embrace? And in such a case, if one happened to have a life insurance policy, would it pay?
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This is really a window for people to choose what they want to skate to and try to explore new things, just do whatever they want. It's really nice to have options to express our creativity.
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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.
