Bill Gates Quotes
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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I sent down a circular check to the office to be cashed-a check good for its face in any part of the world, as any ordinary ass would know-but the ass who was assifying for the Queen Anne Mansions on salary didn't know it; indeed I think that his assitude transcended any assfulness I have ever met in this world or elsewhere.
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In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
