Bill Gates Quotes
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.
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My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
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To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
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I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
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I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people say, "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."
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Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
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I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
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Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
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The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.
