Bill Gates Quotes

The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

Bill Gates

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• Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • World
  • Want
  • See

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

• I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Black
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • World
  • Peace
  • Child

• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Time
  • World
  • Heart

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • Future
  • Energy

• The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Idea
  • Fiction

• Music will save the world.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Music
  • Will

• I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Country
  • Humanity

• There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Trying

• Being able to do what I do in the ring and out of the ring is evidence that I'm not from this world.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • World

• It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

  

  John Amos
  • Struggle

• Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

  

  Abraham Low
  • Control
  • Act
  • Self-respect

• Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Prayer

• The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Idea
  • Immigration