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.Nathan Myhrvold
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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.
Fede Alvarez -
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.
Carl Bernstein -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge -
Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
Karrie Webb -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
B. F. Skinner
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie -
I'm a really bad liar.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Gary Johnson -
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.
Zadie Smith -
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.
Hannah Kent -
For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
Karan Johar
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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.
Jackson Katz -
What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
Valeria Mazza -
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.
Barry Ritholtz -
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
Taylor Swift -
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall -
When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
Haniel Long
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I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
Chris Eigeman -
When I saw 'My Fair Lady,' I was surprised at how mean and misogynistic Henry was. Maybe that's why it's dropping out of public consciousness.
John Cho -
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.
Kevin Garnett -
I would always pick pop songs and would sing them even if they were not correct for the audition - which didn't always get me a lot of jobs, but sometimes they did.
Andrew Rannells -
It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
Adam Grant -
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.
Nathan Myhrvold