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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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
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These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
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I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.
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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
