Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
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I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
