Bill Gates Quotes
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Women just love to shop.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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I want mainstream artists to accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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I am concerned about it with so many endangered species right in the Santa Barbara County area.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
