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29 quotes by Melinda Gates

Melinda French Gates, (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American businessperson and philanthropist. She is the wife of Bill Gates, and the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Encarta and Expedia.
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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.

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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also... →

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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing... →

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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... →

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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

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

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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

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All lives have an equal value.

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

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But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

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

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You can't save kids just with vaccines.

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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

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