Bill Gates Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
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The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
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There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.
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None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
