Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

Bill Clinton

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• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Movie
  • Fantasy
  • Don Roos

• I am all for TV, but I want to be part of shows that stand out.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Shows
  • Part
  • Stand

• My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Song
  • Eye
  • Surprise

• It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Responsibility
  • Discover
  • Sufferings

• Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Innovations
  • Healthcare system
  • Chronic Diseases

• I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Conversation
  • Pieces
  • Hats

• It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Vision
  • End

• Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Lying

• But I regret not having liked history.

  

  Eva Herzigova
  • History
  • I Regret

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Great

• When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

  

  Leon Jaworski
  • Men
  • Law
  • Target

• The right to private property ownership is one of our core freedoms, ... Historically, eminent domain has been used mainly for well served public purposes such as highways or schools, but this decision sets a dangerous precedent for uprooting families simply to accommodate wealthy developers.

  

  Lincoln Davis
  • Decision
  • Dangerous
  • Ownership

• We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Violence
  • Aim

• The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Interesting

• Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Recognition

• The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Constitution
  • Republic
  • Freedoms

• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Idiosyncratic
  • High-entropy

• On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • World
  • War
  • Lost

• We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Ocean
  • Realizing
  • Accomplish

• Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

  

  Ken Bruen
  • Dialogue
  • Height
  • Tarantino

• If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Freedoms
  • Constitution inhibit
  • Government's ability