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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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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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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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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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 problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men. Even fighters like Bud Green, “Bonecrusher”, he had trouble with them whether he wanted to or not. He would have had great trouble with Lennox Lewis, particularly since he maximized his shortness by crouching, and he couldn't fight inside so the guy would pick him apart like Buster Douglas.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
