William H. Gates, Sr. Quotes

“If You Born Poor,It is not your mistake, but if you die poor,it is your mistake”

William H. Gates, Sr.

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• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Right
  • Him
  • Bully

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Sports

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• I'm out of my mind! Somebody told me that a long time ago. Some idiot! laughs … In a dream. I don't want to think about dreams now.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

  

  Eminem
  • Mind
  • Travel

• Why should youngsters get butterflies in their stomachs while working with me when my condition too is no different from theirs?

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Different
  • Why

• Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Democracy
  • Enlightenment

• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Death
  • Reunion
  • Foretaste

• Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Good
  • Criticism
  • Dating

• As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Interesting

• We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Mind

• One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.

  

  Byron Howard
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band
  • Dance

• There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like with 'Swingers,' where it sort of slowly ripples out, yet everybody could quote it. Or it could be something like 'Elf,' where you just make a big splash right off the bat when the movie comes out.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mistake

• If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Remember
  • Die
  • Sister

• He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Die
  • Alone
  • Stroke

• “If You Born Poor,It is not your mistake, but if you die poor,it is your mistake”

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Die
  • Mistake
  • Poor