Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

Nathan Myhrvold

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RisksFlyingRememberYouRaceRisk

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

Mayte Garcia

LossYouKindTalkAboutAny

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Matt Taibbi

GreatIdeasAmericanLongJournalism

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

Jeff Nichols

TimeWritingLikeLotThemSpend

I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

LifeMyselfManI AmMeWorld

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

Jeff Duncan

WantSeeLimitationsRefugeeUsLot

Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

Stephen Frears

FoolsImportantTrueRiskHeroes

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

PositiveGoodChildrenParentsThink

When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.

Roxane Gay

DiversityThinkFinancialIgnore

I want to live quietly.

Mary MacLane

LiveWantQuietly

At Coinbase, our first priority is to ensure that we operate the most secure and compliant digital currency exchange in the world.

Brian Armstrong

WorldDigitalFirstCurrencySecure

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

PainCriticismAttentionBodyHuman

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Ridley Scott

SciencePathThinkDownNewWant

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