Bill Gates Quotes

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
• Soccer

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• Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Religion

• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Risk

• During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Water
  • First
  • Existence

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Support
  • Philosophy
  • Saying

• This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Career
  • Tears
  • Blood

• Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Political
  • Black
  • Die

• To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Rest

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

  

  Charles Evers

• An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.

  

  Charice Pempengco

• I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Basketball

• By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London. So I'd had those experiences where I would get onto the Tube, and people would get off. So there was a lot about Raja that I understood.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• Will have a wonderful marriage. But if you married the right person yet treat him or her as the wrong one, that person will turn into the wrong one. The same is true with your job.

  

  Ed Silvoso
  • Job
  • Marriage
  • Wrong

• I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.

  

  Betty White
  • Proud

• No one had ever educated me on mental health. I really didn't understand why I would be feeling high on life, and everything was brilliant, and then suddenly I would be crashing into a deep hole.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Life
  • Why
  • High

• 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