Larry Niven Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
