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.”

William H. Gates, Sr.

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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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • First

• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Never
  • Afraid

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • You
  • Understand

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• 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!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• 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.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Army
  • Africa

• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • You
  • Quality
  • Percent

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Progress
  • Lies
  • Tell

• 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.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Live
  • Walk

• I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Imagination
  • Kid
  • Arts

• The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Home
  • American
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Character
  • Society
  • Imagination

• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.

  

  Owen King
  • People
  • Work
  • Wife

• “There are intersections of integrity and temptation in every career and every life. The challenge is to do the right thing no matter what.”

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Career
  • Integrity
  • Temptation