Larry Niven Quotes
Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. 'I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.'
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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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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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.
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I think I’m super fucking Finnish. I’m so Finnish, so European, so Nordic. There’s always a part of me where I’m like … America—I don’t know how to be here. But I really try.
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I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.
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Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. 'I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.'
