Larry Niven Quotes
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
Pat Metheny -
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
Hans Rosling -
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph Adams Cram -
I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
Xavier Rudd -
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
Viggo Mortensen -
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson -
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Oscar Wilde -
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
Barney Oliver -
When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
Tammy Duckworth -
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
F. Sionil Jose -
New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
Zig Ziglar
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany -
Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
Zoe Foster Blake -
My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
Barry McGee -
Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!
Fernando Pessoa -
Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Jools Holland: 'Knock Knock!' Morrissey: 'I'm not in!' Jools: 'Oh, come on.' Morrissey: 'I refuse to open the door.'
Morrissey The Smiths
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
Seneca the Younger -
Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.
Louis C. K. -
Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.
Eve Curie -
10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
Larry Niven