John Gates Quotes

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

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• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
  • Prepare

• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Republican
  • Definition
  • Bush

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Player
  • Ambition
  • Wanted

• I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of 'Microsoft Money' and Intuit's 'Quicken.' Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting - too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't have a complex mind.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Mind
  • Complex

• None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Go

• I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Work
  • God
  • Think

• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Book
  • Jesus
  • Ideas

• 'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Candy

• All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

  

  Larry Wall

• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Compassion

• When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Inspiration
  • Media
  • Engagement

• I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Library
  • Growing Up
  • French

• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Drama

• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Faithful

• I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

  

  Gail Simone
  • Humanity
  • Cancer
  • Loved

• Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

  

  John Gates