Bill Gates Quotes
We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.Bill Gates
Quotes to Explore
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie -
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. Simpson -
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney -
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori
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I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
Navid Negahban -
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
Dan Aykroyd -
All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Gail Collins -
When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
D. B. Sweeney -
There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
Cara Buono -
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor -
Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
Natasha Leggero -
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo -
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
Dan Jenkins -
Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
Gary Cohn
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
A. E. Hotchner -
They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Albert Einstein -
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
Rowan Williams -
We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
Bill Gates