Bill Gates Quotes
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
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I love Italian food.
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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.
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A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
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I got into a fight with a kid in junior high, and then we became friends after that.
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There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.
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From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
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It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
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I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.
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By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.
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Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
