Bill Gates Quotes
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Elves are cool, man.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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I don't want to get fat.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
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I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.
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...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
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After having been confined to a television series - and it's a luxury job - where you can't play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn't affect me. I got out quick enough.
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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
