Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I don't feel closeted.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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For me, I feel like I'm slowly accomplishing what I've always wanted to do. I've always dreamed really big, and my mom planted that in all three of my siblings: 'You guys can do anything.'
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
