Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Bill Clinton

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• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

  

  Alan Paton
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Breathing
  • Contribution
  • Called

• The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Contribution
  • Absolute

• A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Success
  • Person
  • Moral

• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

  

  Sean Penn
  • People
  • Book
  • Research

• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Writing
  • Contribution
  • The Beatles

• You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Earth
  • Resources
  • Created

• I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Book
  • I Think
  • Contribution

• There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Unique
  • Differences
  • Lines

• So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tree
  • Contribution
  • Complexity

• We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.

  

  Allen W. Wood
  • Failures
  • Contribution
  • Marx

• Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

  

  Andrew Schneider
  • Whole
  • Contribution
  • Weaknesses

• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Capable
  • Contribution
  • Drummer

• Do we love watching things burn so much that our best and most valuable contribution is to help toss another match?

  

  Amber Naslund
  • Watching
  • Contribution
  • Match

• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  

  David W. Oxtoby
  • Teaching
  • Significant
  • Contribution

• The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

  

  William F. Nolan
  • Important
  • Literature
  • Excellence

• Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Conversation
  • Contribution
  • Online

• Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Attention
  • Significant
  • Contribution

• The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Light
  • Color
  • Firm

• We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Kingdoms

• I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Contribution
  • Government Policy