Larry Niven Quotes

She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.

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• I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Rest
  • Language

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Think
  • Same
  • Plants

• Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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  • Green
  • Environmental

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Support
  • Philosophy
  • Saying

• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Like
  • Genius

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Politics

• From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Real
  • Why

• I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • She
  • Think

• What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

  

  Baltasar Gracian

• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Life
  • She
  • Fashion

• My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Home
  • She
  • Pretty

• She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.

  

  Larry Niven
  • She
  • Universe