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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• I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Cool
  • Son
  • Walking

• 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

• We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Need
  • Venture

• 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 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Age
  • Girl

• 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

• I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.

  

  Marylouise Burke
  • People
  • Character
  • Age

• She was ruined. She’d become anathema.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Ruined
  • Anathema

• Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Why
  • City
  • Safety

• One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Knowledge
  • Generation
  • Political Fate

• “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.