Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

Nathan Myhrvold

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I'm not a control maniac.

John Malkovich

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I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

Trixie Mattel

GoodI CanTwoAnythingVoicesLike

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.

Trixie Mattel

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I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Della Reese

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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

Chuck Schumer

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The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.

Bob Newhart

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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Wyndham Lewis

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My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

Pierce Brosnan

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I love how humans talk.

Svetlana Alexievich

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I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.

Synyster Gates

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I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.

Peter Max

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Proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.

Ricky Martin

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