Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

Nathan Myhrvold

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I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

John Gordon Sinclair

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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

Melissa de la Cruz

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If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

Max Martin

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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.

Sia

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As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.

Rob Gronkowski

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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean de la Bruyere

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I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Joss Whedon

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I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

Jonny Lang

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I can be myself everywhere and be happy and confident and not feel that I am just what I do.

Donna McKechnie

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Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.

Deeyah Khan

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I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

Chord Overstreet

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I think sleep is just the most important thing. I think most New Yorkers, especially, don't get enough sleep.

Chelsea Leyland

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