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”
Quotes to Explore
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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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.
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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.
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Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
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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.
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I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.
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Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
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During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
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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.
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There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
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Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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When you fit meditation into your day, you bring much more of yourself to all the other hours of your day - you bring your whole self rather than your stressed-out self.
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I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
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Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path.
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“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”
