Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.
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I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
