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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
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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.

  

  Val Kilmer
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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.

  

  Walter Kirn
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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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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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.

  

  Kate Mosse
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• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
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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.

  

  Talib Kweli 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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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.

  

  Nas
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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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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.

  

  C. L. R. James
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  • Capitalism

• I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

  

  Candis Cayne
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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.

  

  Majel Barrett
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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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

  

  Ken Follett
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• You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.

  

  Jen Sincero
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  • Feeling

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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• He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.

  

  Lloyd Doggett
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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.

  

  Bill Clinton
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