Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Africa is the future.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I get bored easily.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.