Bill Gates Quotes
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.
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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
