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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Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
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Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].
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I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.
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The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
