Bill Gates Quotes
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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Les acteurs sont bien heureux, ils ont une gloire sans responsabilité.
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I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.
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It's time to start believing - Oh yes.Believing who you are: You are a shining star.
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
