Bill Gates Quotes
The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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I admit, that the commonplace man can never, by copying, produce a masterpiece; he notes every detail but he does not really see - the artist penetrates below the surface into the very heart of nature; for him everything is beautiful because beauty in art consists of character.
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Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural's the better way to go.
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On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
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I'm really good with fighting with my feet.
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What helped me a lot is the fact that I have a very short neck. If I had a neck like a stack of dimes, you can bet I couldn't take a good shot. But the fact that I had a short neck and worked on it a lot (as opposed to most fighters who don't work on their neck muscles) definitely helped. I would stand on my head against a wall and move my head back and forth, side to side, for half an hour or so while talking on the phone.
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I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.
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Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
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Under current law, most Americans can sue their HMO or insurance company if it denies care and a patient dies or is injured as a result. Again, most employees of small businesses already can sue their HMO. Only those employees who work in companies with "self-insured" plans are not able to sue, as these plans operate under the federal Employee Retirement, Insurance, Security Act.
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The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.
