Bill Gates Quotes
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
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When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.
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Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.
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Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
