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

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
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In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.
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We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
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Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.
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That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools we can redesign them.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines.
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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.
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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, marketing, user education.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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