Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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I like children - fried.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.
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Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
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When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
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A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
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No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.
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I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
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The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.
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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
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If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
