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“I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.”
Henry Rollins
“But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.”
Henry Rollins
“So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.”
Henry Rollins
“I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.”
Henry Rollins
“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.”
Henry Rollins
“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”
Henry Rollins
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
Rumi
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
Rumi
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.”
Bill Gates
“Life is not fair get used to it.”
Bill Gates
“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
Bill Gates
“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?”
Bill Gates
“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
Bill Gates
“Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.”
Bill Gates
“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.”
Bill Gates
“The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.”
Bill Gates
“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”
Bill Gates
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“You can stroke people with words.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank
“The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
Anne Frank
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
Anne Frank
