William H. Gates, Sr. Quotes

“Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it. —Stephen Carter, Integrity”

William H. Gates, Sr.

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Experience by itself is not science.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Itself

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Me
  • Tells

• After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Know
  • Government

• I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal

• Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God

• During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People

• I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Life
  • She
  • Remember

• There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Art

• I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Struggle

• The weirder the better for me.

  

  Sia LSD

• Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Crazy

• I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • Music
  • Soul

• What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Space
  • Travel
  • Author

• Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

  

  Dave Anderson
  • Sunset
  • Sailing

• My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • House
  • Road

• The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course now, nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Wife
  • Secretary of state

• I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.

  

  Arj Barker
  • Alone
  • Decision
  • Terrified

• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.

  

  James Bovard
  • Trying
  • Power
  • American

• “Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it. —Stephen Carter, Integrity”

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.