Bill Gates Quotes
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.
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I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
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I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.
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If someone tells you that you aren't good enough, that's their problem, not yours.
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People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.
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The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.
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My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
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When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
