Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
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My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
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In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.
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One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
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We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.
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There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
