Larry Niven Quotes
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.
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The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
