Bill Gates Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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I've stayed in the best hotels in the world, but you could put me in prison, and I'd still have fun.
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It's very American, making a lot of money.
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The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
