Bill Gates Quotes
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.
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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
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Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
