Bill Gates Quotes
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
