Bill Gates Quotes

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Learn

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Learn
  • Partner

• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Hurt
  • Learn
  • Down

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dad

• Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Learn

• Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Man
  • News
  • Viewers

• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Important
  • Growing

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

  

  Alan W. Black
  • Reality
  • Learn
  • Move

• Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• If you do right, everything will come out right.

  

  Wolfman Jack
  • Right
  • Do
  • Come Out

• Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the chief party in its own decay, And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

  

  Katherine Philips
  • Religion
  • Destiny
  • Chief

• Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

  

  Bill Gates
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