Bill Gates Quotes

In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.

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• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Up
  • Village
  • Houses

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Ambition

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Get
  • Cinema

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Only
  • Cookbook

• Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Trying
  • Education
  • Single

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Treat

• I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

  

  Lincoln Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoyment

• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Always
  • Liberty
  • Traditions

• In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.

  

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