Bill Gates Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I never lie to my fans.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
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An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.
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My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'
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The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
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The best teacher is very interactive.