Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
Quotes to Explore
-
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
-
I was unbelievably lucky.
-
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
-
It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
-
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
-
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
-
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
-
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
-
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
-
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
-
My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
-
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
-
The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
-
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
-
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
-
When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
-
I've got an incredible family that I never get to see. I've missed so much. They know how much my career means to me, and they allow me to go and be the workaholic that they never get to see. They support me in that.
-
When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.
-
We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.
-
I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
-
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
-
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
