Larry Niven Quotes
A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
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In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Everyone makes fun of my calves. They are so big. I don't really even like them, I don't really want them as big as they are, but I have no choice.
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters.
