Bill Gates Quotes
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.
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The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
