William H. Gates, Sr. Quotes
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.
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I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
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I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
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I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.
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When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.
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Often you have to rely on your intuition.
