Bill Gates Quotes
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
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I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.
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Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.
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For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby. It's that I can get on the subway and eavesdrop on conversations that I would never have access to otherwise. That's why I stay. That's why I could never leave.
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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
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If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.
