Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
Mal Peet
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
Rachel Kushner
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
Dakota Fanning
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
Damian Woetzel
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
Haldan Keffer Hartline
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
Viggo Mortensen
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz
Matt Malley
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
Taylor Swift
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And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Bret Harte
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I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.
Amanda Marshall
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The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
Owen King
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold
