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.'
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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.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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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.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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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.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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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.
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I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
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Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
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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.'
