Bill Gates Quotes
If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
Bill Gates
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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.
Natalia Vodianova
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
Ted Cruz
Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
Gary Locke
My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
Tamara Tunie
People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
Hannah Simone
We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
J. D. Vance
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
Harri Holkeri
Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
Caitlin Doughty
I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
Valerie Plame
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Sam Brownback
I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
Kate Jenkinson
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
Zygmunt Bauman
Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
Lake Bell
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
Daniel Barenboim
I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
Rafael Nadal
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
Weili Dai
Crime is a form of 'unorganized' class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.
Daniel Bell
