Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Nathan Myhrvold

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I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.

Jimmy Fallon

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All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Jesse McCartney

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I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

John Grant

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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

Ann Romney

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A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

Simon Sinek

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I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

Roy Bean

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In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.

Mohit Chauhan

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Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Joy Bryant

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I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.

Jason Robert Brown

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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

Jason Silva

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I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

Jonathan Krisel

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'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

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