Larry Niven Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
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I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always there. When I ran into financial problems, I just figured when life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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7) Any damn fool can predict the past.
