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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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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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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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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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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I like it when stories are left open.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.
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I really like being on set when you've all moved on a job because it makes you bond very quickly. You're all out of your time and comfort zone, so you kind of only have each other.
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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.
