William H. Gates, Sr. Quotes

Often you have to rely on your intuition.

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• If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Will
  • Hollywood
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Fortune
  • Duration
  • Pays

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Wally George
  • Different
  • Business
  • Kids

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• 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.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Trees

• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Trouble

• 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.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Law

• Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Long

• You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Colin Firth

• I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • Guy
  • motivation

• Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Compassion
  • Sorrow
  • Punishment

• I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• Often you have to rely on your intuition.

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Intuition
  • Rely