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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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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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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My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
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And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity
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Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
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My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could in powerful events that I thought would begin to help me understand the world, and myself, in larger ways. Looking back, it's difficult to imagine my life without the Congo now.
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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.
