Larry Niven Quotes
2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)
Larry Niven
Quotes to Explore
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
Barbara Sukowa
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
Adam Mansbach
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
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My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice.
Samantha Harvey
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Sam Harris
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
Carl Jung
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When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.
Edward Everett
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.
Markwayne Mullin
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
Kimberly Bryant
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I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
Caroline Corr
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The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.
James Bobin
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My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.
Kelis Rogers
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If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.
Mark Fuhrman
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
Bennett Miller
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I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Dean Wareham
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I started my career buying and owning single-family houses, and I know that's a really tough job. Toilets break. Trees fall. There are so many things that can go wrong. Land, on the other hand, is cheap to manage. It's painless, really. All you have to do is pay your taxes, and that's it.
David Lichtenstein
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Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.
Burhan Ghalioun
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2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)
Larry Niven
