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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Wise

“I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.”

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Hopeful

“If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.”

Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Funny

“Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.”

Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Funny

“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Angry

“We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.”

Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Funny

“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."”

Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Philosophical

“Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.”

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BK
Bill Kraus Artist
Wise

“Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).”

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
Wise

“When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."”

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
Funny

“Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.”

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BJ
Billie Jean King Tennis Player
Funny

“People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?”

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
Grateful

“I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.”

Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Regretful

“People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.”

Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Love

“I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.”

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Thoughtful

“It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.”

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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Courageous

“The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?”

Bono Musician, Activist
Optimistic

“Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.”

Bono Musician, Activist
Courageous

“I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.”

Bono Musician, Activist
Optimistic

“Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.”