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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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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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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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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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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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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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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I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
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We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.
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We left Germany when I was 11.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
