Bill Gates Quotes
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.
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The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
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The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
