Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'
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I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like the depth is very dramatic.
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The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
