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

• One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Ignorance
  • Chief
  • Asset

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Newhart,' and 'Coach,' and sometimes I'd feel like I didn't belong.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Night

• The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

  

  Michael Moore
  • Integrity
  • Adversity
  • Highest

• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Know
  • Week

• “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