Bill Gates Quotes
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
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What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
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There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
