Bill Gates Quotes

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

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• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Different
  • Style
  • Value

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Long
  • Today
  • Man

• I always work with 18 friends.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Always

• Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Running

• I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Helmet

• 'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • You
  • Everything

• I wouldn't want to be President now!

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Want
  • President
  • Now

• He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up

• Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Moving

• Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Art
  • Patriotic

• ...I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • School
  • Past

• I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian.

  

  John Woo
  • God
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • High
  • Dance
  • Deep

• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Art
  • Valuable
  • Birds

• Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Belief
  • Development

• It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.

  

  Jerry A. Webman
  • Up
  • Entrepreneur

• In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Childhood deaths