Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.Nathan Myhrvold
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
Mandy Moore -
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
Nathan Myhrvold -
In Germany I am not so famous.
Hans Berger -
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
Aasif Mandvi -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett -
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
Hanoi Hannah -
I am from Karnal, India.
Kalpana Chawla -
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
Rachel Stevens
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
Kara Swisher -
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback -
There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
Larry David -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T -
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
Takeru Kobayashi
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Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
Lesley Lawson -
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar -
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
Bill Simmons -
I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.
John Lithgow -
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Nathan Myhrvold