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 am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.
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I wanna show you I can out-rap your favorite rappers. I wanna show you I can out-produce your favorite producers. So I'm constantly getting better and I understand that there's always room for growth, especially in quality, sonic quality.
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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.
