Larry Niven Quotes
Drugs: 'There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.''How do you mean?''The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.'
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
-
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
-
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
-
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
-
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
-
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-
My brother is really, really slow.
-
I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
-
You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
-
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
-
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
-
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
-
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
-
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
-
When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
-
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
-
Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
-
I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.
-
To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.
-
'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
-
Drugs: 'There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.''How do you mean?''The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.'
