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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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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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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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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My major task was to keep us solvent.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
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We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
