Bill Gates Quotes
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To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
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I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.
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Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.
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I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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And finally, Africa’s progress will depend on upholding the human rights of all people - for if each of us is to be treated with dignity, each of us must be sure to also extend that same dignity to others.
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There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... just keeps on eating.
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I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.
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Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
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Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
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The clothes have to perform for me.
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Life is lived on the edge.
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Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.
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I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
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After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
