Bill Gates Quotes
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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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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Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?
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I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
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I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.
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I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.
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My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too.
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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
