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Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

Nathan Myhrvold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1959

Topics

You Look Find Dirt Dinosaur See

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Science Culture World Engineering

My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine.

Andrew Solomon

People Tolerance Want Land High

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

Andrea Riseborough

Women Time Men Complex Seen Film

Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths.

Jeff Giles

Good Independent Taste Big Mouths

I just know how lucky I am.

Steve Scalise

I Am Know Lucky Just How Am

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

Tommy Franks

Fire Blue Want Friendly Call Fan

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

Tony Scott

Brilliant Never Through Anything

If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

Robert Forster

Good Moment Excellence Creative Mind

There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

Ruth Bradley

Room Much Characters

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

Mila Kunis

Speak Think Actor Will Protect More

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

Michelle Malkin

Health Government Control Care Plan

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

Jordan Peterson

Women Organization Think You Look