Bill Gates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
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I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
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That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
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Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
