Bill Gates Quotes

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

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• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Results

• It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Day

• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Vicious

• I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Change
  • Days

• As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Happy

• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sleep
  • Better
  • Lie

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Day

• It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Telling
  • Quit
  • Signs

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Mom
  • Tough
  • Fighter

• Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Energy

• The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, 'clean energy' research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Work
  • Science
  • Energy

• Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

  

  Louise Brown
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Advances