Bill Gates Quotes
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.
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Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
