Bill Gates Quotes
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I have a great office.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.
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The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
