Bill Gates Quotes
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I can do whatever I want.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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I've had marvelous and incredible luck, and devoted parents, sisters, friends, and teachers. What more can one ask? These things contribute enormously. Probably the major part of one's success is due to these factors.
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Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
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My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I've always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend.
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There's still nothing like a home-cooked meal. Absolutely not.
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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
