Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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I have four horses, and they are my everything.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
