William H. Gates, Sr. Quotes
“There are intersections of integrity and temptation in every career and every life. The challenge is to do the right thing no matter what.”
Quotes to Explore
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
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I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is.
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The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment and below-target inflation and calling for highly accommodative monetary policies.
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The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.
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Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
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I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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“There are intersections of integrity and temptation in every career and every life. The challenge is to do the right thing no matter what.”
