Bill Gates Quotes

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Me
  • Angry

• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Stay
  • Valleys

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Just
  • Everyone

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

• In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Book

• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Door

• In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Service

• First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Beginning

• Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

  

  Charles Hermite

• The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • High
  • Attitude

• 'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Silence

• I play on a soccer team.

  

  Jake Short
  • Team
  • Soccer

• Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Family

• I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Exercise

• I will not offer my thoughts on what Japan could and should have done, this is none of my business, it is the business of the Japanese leadership. But we should understand how practicable all our agreements are as a whole given the allied obligations Japan has assumed, how much independence there is in making those decision, and what we can hope for, what we can ultimately arrive at.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Done
  • Decision
  • Independence

• All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • World
  • Education
  • Food

• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life
  • History
  • Future

• We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

  

  Bill Gates
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