William H. Gates, Sr. Quotes

His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!

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• Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Business
  • Team

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Great
  • Business
  • Model

• Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Live
  • Why
  • America

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Different
  • Question

• My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

• If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Same

• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Life
  • Great
  • Poetry

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Problem
  • Very

• I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Family
  • Health
  • Responsibility

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Far

• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  

  Woodrow Wilson
  • Government
  • Groups
  • Majority

• We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

  

  Simon Toyne
  • Government
  • Keep
  • Organisations

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Government
  • Suing