Bill Gates Quotes

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • World
  • Book
  • Together

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Like
  • Artist

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Fighting
  • Poverty
  • Programs

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Change
  • Fight

• I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mother

• I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.

  

  Cierra Ramirez
  • People

• I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

  

  Kyla Pratt

• I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to watch WWF; I was inspired by all of that. One of my favourite wrestlers was Rock, who has become an actor.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Dream
  • Rock
  • Childhood

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Smart
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