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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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.
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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
