Bill Gates Quotes
If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.
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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
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I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
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The last thing I want to do is cause loads of hype or problems, I just want to go in there and get my asparagus or whatever.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.
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I don't come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don't always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.
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If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.
