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.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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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.
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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.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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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.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
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The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
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I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.
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I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.
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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.
