Bill Gates Quotes

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Friends
  • White
  • Hip Hop

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Great
  • Moments

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • America
  • Vietnam
  • Veterans

• If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Friends

• I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

  

  Amy Weber

• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Evil

• We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Music
  • Amazing

• I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines
  • Work

• You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

  

  Joe Montana
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.

  

  Janet Mock
  • People
  • World

• Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That happens all the time.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Time
  • Guy

• I felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

  

  George Berkeley
  • World
  • Miracle

• Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Independent

• The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Experience
  • Health
  • Artist

• The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Vision
  • Device
  • Convenience