Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

Nathan Myhrvold

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WaterCookingEnergyThreeWhyHeat

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Joe Lonsdale

BetterKnowUpIndustryWhoShake

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Jeffrey Combs

OpportunityActingOutInstinct

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

Jeanette Winterson

LifePeopleEnoughPersonTwo People

Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.

Statik Selektah

PeopleFeelPlayWantOpenCrack

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Tristan MacManus

MorningFootballDanceCompetition

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

Tom Petty

GoodSongGuitarYouDownPlay

What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

Joshua Jackson

JobGamblingRealGlamourLikeLay

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Jose Manuel Barroso

SolidarityWithoutStability

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

Cindy Sheehan

LoyaltyRootsDemocracyValuesTrue

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

Peter Hook

FatherMotherGoConservativeMiddle

Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.

Pete Burns

CharacterPeopleMeLearnSeriously

The Four Horsemen were limousines and Lear Jets, while DX was trailer parks and outhouses. One was white trash, one was upper crust. I always saw DX and the NWO as the natural rivals at the time.

Shawn Michaels

TimeWhiteTrashAlwaysNaturalSaw

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