Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Nathan Myhrvold

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InnovationBestCookingPastTalent

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Jim Mattis

DisciplineYouObedienceWillVictim

Shaking's great. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped. Yeah, I would recommend it.

Jerome Flynn

GreatFireManMovingEnergyBody

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Melinda Clarke

WomenReflectionMeThinkPowerful

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Andre Kostelanetz

SilenceMeSoundGreatestComplete

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier

LoveLovingCrimeForgetting

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.

Andy Kindler

LoveBestActorDirectorRomance

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

Amanda Foreman

WomenWomanBookColleaguesYou

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson

PoetryWritingPlanLivingWrite

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Robert Winston

TimeResearchColleaguesDoingReal

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

Brendan Sexton III

LongOkayDictatorsCorporate

I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on 'Strictly' has changed my life.

Anton du Beke

LifeSuccessWorldPartnerMy Life

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

William T. Vollmann

KnowledgeIgnoranceMeMoreWrite

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