Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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How immense the high sky is!
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
