Bill Gates Quotes

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reading
  • Matter
  • Perception

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.

  

  Flume
  • Home
  • Water
  • Regret

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Race

• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Real
  • Love

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Want
  • You
  • Question

• People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • People
  • Think
  • Fairy

• I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Day
  • Always

• I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

  

  Lefty Gomez
  • Tired

• I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Health

• I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

  

  Freddie Stroma
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Food
  • Community

• Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Population
  • Prisons

• By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Population
  • Empowering Women