Bill Gates Quotes
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.
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Harry Dresden: Pretty sure that Roman Catholic priests don't have peeps. Too trendy and ephemeral. Like automobiles. And the printing press.
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What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
