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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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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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.
