Bill Gates Quotes

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Better
  • Tennis

• He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Day
  • Fight

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• I don't like violence.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Violence

• The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

  

  David Icke
  • Negativity

• I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Place

• Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.

  

  Vaclav Smil
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Shine

• We created a whole lot of millionaires to boot. Businesses did just fine. And you know there are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans all across the country -- I meet them every day -- who'd be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good. They understand that we're in this thing together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Women
  • House
  • Times

• There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Politics

• A heavenly location for the actions of the savior gods, including the death of Christ, would also have been influenced by most religions' ultimate derivation from astrotheology, as in the worship of the sun and moon. For this dimension of more remote Christian roots, see the books of Acharya S, especially 'Suns of God.

  

  Earl Doherty
  • God
  • Death
  • Christian

• It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

  

  Martha Griffiths
  • World
  • Different
  • Justice

• You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Sex
  • Body
  • Pleases

• Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • She
  • Gifts
  • Four

• Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Cool
  • Sexy
  • Symmetry

• There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Scope

• I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

  

  Bill Gates
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