Bill Gates Quotes
If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
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Q: Do you feel a need to be distinctive and mass-produced? Q: Are you in the groove? That is, are you moving in ever-diminishing circles? Q: How often do you change your mind, your politics, your clothes? (p. 121-125)
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
