Bill Gates Quotes
When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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I've learned never say never.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.
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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
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When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
