Bill Gates Quotes
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
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The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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I love the idea that we can dress all sorts of people, and they feel great in the dresses, and that make us feel good.
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This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
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The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
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I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
