Bill Gates Quotes
People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I love books.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I'm playing the game because I love it. But I'm also playing it for my family. You play for the glory, but you play for your family, too.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
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People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.
