Bill Gates Quotes

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

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• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • School
  • Kind

• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Problem
  • Being
  • Stage

• I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Opinions

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Man
  • Hate

• Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Normal

• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Why
  • Problem
  • Difficult

• I stay away from things that I know break me out - I am weirdly allergic to mango and almonds. I take evening primrose and supplements that have EFA fatty acids in them to just balance out my hormones and skin, and I take a lot of vitamin C. I drink a lot of water, try to eat really organic, and try to eat things that benefit my skin.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Water
  • Balance

• Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Work

• And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Travel

• I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • World

• Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • Writing
  • True
  • Food

• I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Present

• There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
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  • Missteps