Larry Niven Quotes
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.
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I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.
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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
