Larry Niven Quotes
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
