Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
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Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
