Bill Gates Quotes

I think of myself as a global citizen.

Bill Gates

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• I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Disability

• My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Talent

• Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Detail

• I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fan
  • Huge

• If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Page

• I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Important
  • Think
  • Fear

• I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

  

  Imelda May
  • Know
  • Me
  • Lost

• The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Become
  • Less

• But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Animal

• Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sacrifice
  • Lives
  • Many

• If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Death

• I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Die

• If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Long

• People in New York never have time for anything.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Time

• A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Why

• The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Life
  • Children
  • Passion

• If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Different
  • She
  • Think

• ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

  

  William Faulkner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Love

• I think of myself as a global citizen.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Global Citizen