Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

Nathan Myhrvold

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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Jimmy Wales

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A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.

Joe R. Lansdale

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I love to hit the gym when I can. I usually work out three times a week and do circuit training.

Jessie James Decker

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My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

Jennifer Hudson

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I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.

Andre Leon Talley

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We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

John Higgins

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I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Jeff Kinney

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I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.

Steven Berkoff

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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Robert Ballard

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'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

RuPaul

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I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

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Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

Jay Asher

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