Bill Gates Quotes
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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He Taika Watiti worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film Hunt for the Wilderpeople... Perfect as you can be.
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If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
