Bill Gates Quotes
I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
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I know all the critics.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
Antony Sher -
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
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I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
