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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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
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The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.
