Bill Gates Quotes

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Success
  • Education

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Teaching
  • Coach

• If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Want
  • Might

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Humor
  • Admire

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Work
  • Day
  • Simple

• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Day
  • Better
  • End

• And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Faith

• I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• Sexual Personae seeks to demonstrate the unity and continuity of western culture - something that has inspired little belief since the period before World War I.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • War
  • Culture

• What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

  

  Karl Marx

• I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

  

  Laverne Cox
  • She
  • Mother
  • Dance

• I say that a God who would come between two who have been to each other what we have been, is not one I would heed.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • God

• Sometimes I go crazy - get into a mindspace where it doesn't matter what I spend. Like, on impulse, I might buy a $600 Dolce t-shirt, you know, just because it's silk and maybe there's some suede leather detailing. Or two of my favourite hoodies, I don't even know the brand, but they're' very thin soft cotton. $300 apiece!

  

  Trey Songz
  • Crazy

• I was made for action movies.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Action
  • Movies

• You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Peace
  • Die
  • Fighting

• I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Action
  • Right Time
  • Right Place