Larry Niven Quotes
It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.
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When you look at the Chevrolet Volt, those customers are some of the most satisfied across the industry.
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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
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A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
