Melinda Gates Zitate auf Englisch

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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

Melinda Gates

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

Melinda Gates

All lives have an equal value.

Melinda Gates

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

Melinda Gates

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Melinda Gates

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

Melinda Gates

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

Melinda Gates

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Melinda Gates

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

Melinda Gates

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Melinda Gates

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.

Melinda Gates

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

Melinda Gates

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Melinda Gates

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Melinda Gates

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

Melinda Gates

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Melinda Gates

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

Melinda Gates

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

Melinda Gates

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Melinda Gates