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.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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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.
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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?
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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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.
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I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.
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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.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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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.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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The year began with the hanging of one man and ended with the drowning of another.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
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If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.
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2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
