Larry Niven Quotes

Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.

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• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Career
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke...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.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Way
  • Best
  • Three

• The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Pledge

• I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Old
  • Avengers

• Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Real
  • Play
  • Real estate

• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Education
  • Bible
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Day

• We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Soul
  • House
  • Party

• This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Amazing
  • Driving

• In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

  

  Nelson Rodrigues
  • Player
  • Blind
  • Ball

• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Eye

• ...she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Overcome
  • Human Mind
  • Felicity

• For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Know
  • Paid
  • Haircut

• With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.

  

  Larry Niven