Bill Gates Quotes
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
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'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
