Bill Gates Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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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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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
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..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.
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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
