Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

Nathan Myhrvold

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My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

Joe Mande

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The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

Matthew Quick

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Jean Rostand

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I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

Stromae

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I was first hired at Staples in 1992, by company founder Tom Stemberg and eventual CEO Ron Sargent, to be the first director of marketing and merchandising for the catalog business.

Shira Goodman

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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

Tony Campolo

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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

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You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe.

Joyce Meyer

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I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Don Imus

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Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

Corey Taylor

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I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

Brian Austin Green

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I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.

Bobby Orr

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