Bill Gates Quotes
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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中国未来将是制定下一个世纪游戏规则的地方...因为全世界人都会在那儿，所以去中国不是去发财，今天不是去发财，不是寻找机会，而是参与未来游戏规则的制定。
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.
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I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn't think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.
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Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
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I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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I just believe in common courtesy.
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One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
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I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
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I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
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I can't worry about what I'm doing to be the National Player of the Year; it's what am I doing to help my team be successful?
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Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.
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There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
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I'm not a macroeconomics person.
