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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke...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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My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
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It’s like my greatest accomplishment in life so far, and I haven’t committed myself to anything for as long as I’ve committed myself to music, to the band and you know we’ve been through so many trials and tribulations and yet that didn’t break it, you know?
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I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.
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We have learned nothing from the genome.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
