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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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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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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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
