Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Nathan Myhrvold

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I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

John Logan

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In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

John Pople

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I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Amanda Burton

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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Stephen Greenblatt

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Money talks; there's no question about it.

Ara Parseghian

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You can have bans on assault weapons or whatever weapons you wish, and it's not going to protect from a violent person.

Asa Hutchinson

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Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Pola Negri

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I would love to be the lead in an action movie. I would love to be like Emily Blunt in 'Edge of Tomorrow.'

Pom Klementieff

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It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

Suresh Raina

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We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

Peter Singer

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Architecture is always political.

Richard Rogers

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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

Noam Chomsky

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