Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.
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The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
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Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.
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The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. My loss was about twenty killed. It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that Negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners.
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I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.
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Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
