Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
