Larry Niven Quotes
'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'

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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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There is no one true church.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.
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There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy.
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The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
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To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.
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'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'