Bill Gates Quotes
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
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Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family - plus, I used to play sports - so I'm sure our son will develop athletic ability.
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
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My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
