Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.
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When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
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Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
