Larry Niven Quotes
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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High-tech companies should be managed by the young generation — talented and ambitious people who are acutely aware of the trends of modern digital business development
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.