Bill Gates Quotes
Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.
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Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
