Larry Niven Quotes
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm very candid.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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At a time when every series we're supposed to be DVR-ing is very important, very serious, has to do with heavy, heavy matters, I think 'Wet Hot' provides a respite to that DVR homework. It's totally the gummy bears of your programming.
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There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
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The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.
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Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in people's faces.
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The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.
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If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
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It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
