Bill Gates Quotes

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Know

• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Hard
  • Nothing
  • Awake

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Live
  • Best
  • Thing

• I didn't have a record player.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Player
  • Record

• I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Think
  • Results
  • Washington

• Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • America

• I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • People
  • Real

• I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Family
  • Summer
  • Christmas

• Marty Baron, 'The Post''s executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the Trump Foundation specifically. I also became interested in researching Trump's broader history of charity.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • History
  • Night
  • Trump

• Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

  

  Brad Stone
  • Life
  • Business
  • Control

• As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.

  

  Stanley Robert Vinton
  • God
  • Guy
  • Sorry

• You can ask my wife - there has always been mutual respect between us, and I believe women should be respected for what they are; at no point should they feel the need to be like men.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Health
  • Stress
  • Unknown

• There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.

  

  John Prendergast
  • Reality
  • Question
  • Celebrity

• My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.

  

  Al MacInnis
  • Memories
  • Players
  • Blues

• The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Five years
  • 80 turn out