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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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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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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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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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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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
