Bill Gates Quotes

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • World
  • Gifts

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Now

• I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Know
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Notes

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Song
  • Own

• I tend to stay away from the comics.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Away
  • Stay
  • Tend

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Medical

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  

  Maimonides
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• I'm a television junkie.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Television

• What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Eyes
  • Trees
  • Herbs

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Education
  • Support

• I write very slowly.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Write
  • Very
  • Slowly

• I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Doing

• In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Humanity

• I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Live
  • Strange

• There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Growing
  • Issues
  • Climate

• I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

  

  Pauley Perrette
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • She

• I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Serious