Bill Gates Quotes
The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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They're operating under a misconception and have been for many years. As long as they're polite in their critique, we are polite in our response. But if they're mean and rude, I tell them that.
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He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.
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Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.
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To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.
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The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is.
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Shifting Philip Morris to the new a non-risk products doesn't mean that I will give market share to my competitors free of charge. In the markets where we are not present with IQOS yet or the other reduced-risk products, you still need to defend your share of the market. They still represent the bulk of our income, and so far they have financed the billions of dollars we have put behind these new products. But once we go national in a market, and absent capacity constraints, then you shift your resources and your focus to these new products.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
