Bill Gates Quotes

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Bill Gates

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Fear
  • Alone

• I never allow myself to be pressured.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Allow

• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Pretty
  • Human
  • Voice

• It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Great
  • Speak

• I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Real
  • Band

• I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

  

  Ice T
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • World
  • Way
  • Virtue

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Travel

• It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Age

• I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always topless. All the pictures are of me in jean shorts, no shirt - with my brothers, playing football.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

  

  Al Roker
  • People
  • Black

• Percentages are why I am rich.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Why

• Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

  

  Liz Williams
  • Death
  • English

• Folks in Washington have it all figured out - they are going to make your choices and run your life.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Life
  • Choices

• As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Influence
  • Escape
  • Don't Think

• One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Nice
  • Enough
  • Grace

• I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Good
  • Food
  • Myself

• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • False
  • Accusation
  • Indignant

• I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Singing
  • Used
  • Deeper

• Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Mental cycles