Larry Niven Quotes
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
Natalie Wood -
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
Harmony Korine -
People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
Karl Pilkington -
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth -
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Sam Graves
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Harold Hamm -
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles -
I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.
Carl Paladino -
Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
Ike Barinholtz -
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
Quentin Tarantino -
You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
Harold Ramis -
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
Adam Davidson -
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama -
Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
Fareed Zakaria
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What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.
Laura Mvula -
We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.
Katherine Catmull -
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.
Whoopi Goldberg -
For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
Abby Wambach -
A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.
Matthew Desmond -
2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
Larry Niven