Larry Niven Quotes
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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I've tried to choose roles where women are not just reacting or waiting for something to happen.
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Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.
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When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'
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If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.
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The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
