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

• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Vanity

• I have my own marketing company, Always Civil, where I help artists create their online identity. I have worked with Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Mary J. Blige, Pusha T - the list goes on.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Help
  • Identity
  • Marketing

• Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Man

• The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written; the episode of the Grand Inquisitor, one of the peaks in the literature of the world, can hardly be valued too highly.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • World
  • Literature

• “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.