Bill Gates Quotes

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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• Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Law
  • Me
  • Rules

• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Religion
  • More
  • Common Sense

• I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Different
  • Alone

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Man
  • You

• When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Democracy
  • Spanish
  • Recovery

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Job
  • Fire

• There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Wonderful
  • London
  • Places

• I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Understand

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Universe

• Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Men
  • Society

• I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.

  

  Claire Foy

• What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great

• I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not at all. It's going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Money

• You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Leaving

• I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• In a marriage, we have to accommodate each other's views.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Marriage

• I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Wife

• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Look
  • Make It