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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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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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.
