Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Im very nurturing.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.
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The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
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Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.
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'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It fell out of print almost everywhere. I wrote other books and, as an editor, worked on dozens more. Yet always, Lili stayed with me.
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It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?
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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
