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" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "
Bill Gates
Mom
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" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "
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" People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that. "
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" We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons. "
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" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "
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" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "
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" My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by. "
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" My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. "
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" Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business. "
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" I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence. "
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" The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL. "
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" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "
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" One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me. "
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" Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. "
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" The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. "
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" I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day. "
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" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
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" As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. "
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" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
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Family
Always
" No, I never thought about my father's money as my money. "
Christie Hefner
Never
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" My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run. "
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" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "
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" I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every little word, and he's not massaging it. He's not running computer analytics to tell you what you want to hear and then do whatever the special interests tell him what they want him to do in the end. "
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" Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. "
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" My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man. "
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" The kids are a big part of my schedule. "
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" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "
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" My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. "
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" My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression. "
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