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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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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These days I sit on cornerstonesAnd count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friendDon't confront me with my failuresI had not forgotten them.
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When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
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The way I write music for other artists is the same way I write music for myself. I'll pick up the guitar, and I'll write music, and if I don't use it, I have, like, 500 other songs. If I don't use it, I give it away.
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Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.
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I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
