Bill Gates Quotes
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
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I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.
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The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
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I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
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I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
