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've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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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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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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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.
