Larry Niven Quotes
I asked him, 'Do you know the difference between nude and naked?'He shook his head.'Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.'
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it; we cannot be intimidated by any force. For us our guide is the Constitution of Uganda and the laws there under.
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Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
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I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dyingWell then, let the time be near.
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One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
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I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
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I asked him, 'Do you know the difference between nude and naked?'He shook his head.'Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.'
