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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This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.
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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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Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.
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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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I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
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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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My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.
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America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
