Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
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I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
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We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'
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The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring.
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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
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You can't learn acting through any classes.
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Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.
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I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.
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Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
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Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Along the way they're MLB going to lose millions of more American fans.
