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 have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• 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

• With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Life
  • Science

• I never dye my own hair, I don't know if I could get every spot, and I have a good bit of grey.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Good
  • Hair

• But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Work

• 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

• I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Imagination
  • Religious
  • Write

• I think it's really fascinating that geometry is so difficult. My guess is it's difficult because it focuses on proofs.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Fascinating
  • Geometry
  • Proofs

• At news that Nelson got himself a counsellor Harry feels a jealous, resentful pang. His boy is being taken over. His fatherhood hasn't been good enough. They're calling in the professionals.

  

  John Updike
  • Good
  • Taken
  • Boy

• 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