Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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No two wars are identical.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.
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Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.
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History is merely gossip.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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As far as radio goes, it really isn't what listeners get; it's how they get it. Social media gives us new and fun ways to stay more directly connected to people who listen to us, and it also helps us make decisions faster.
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When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
