Bill Gates Quotes
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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By unapologetically opposing the transformation of America into a Third World country, the GOP would sweep the white vote–once white people recovered from the shock of any candidate asking for their vote. Why should Republicans be ashamed of getting white votes? How about the party work on getting more of them?
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For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.
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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
