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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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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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 don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
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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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The weirder the better for me.
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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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Arizona is a red state, and we're going to keep it red.
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A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.
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The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves.
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Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.
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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”
