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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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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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'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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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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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
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This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).
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I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.
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Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
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I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
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Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.
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Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
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The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.
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I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
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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.
