Bill Gates Quotes

We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.

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• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

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• I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.

  

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• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

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• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

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• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  

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• We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

  

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• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

  

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• Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

  

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• Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

  

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• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  

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• Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

  

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• When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

  

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• I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

  

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• I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.

  

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• The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

  

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• When I became the NASA administrator - or before I became the NASA administrator - Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

  

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• The consolidation of the budget is, of course, the premise for all further political measures. We want to achieve the Maastricht criteria by 2007.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
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• My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

  

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• We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Budget
  • Barack Obama
  • Malaria initiative