Larry Niven Quotes
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
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If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
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Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
