Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

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• When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Song
  • Party

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • Pressure
  • Key

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Like
  • New
  • Looking

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Tough

• As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Movies

• I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Art
  • Car

• In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Things
  • Language

• When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Friends
  • American
  • College

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Long
  • Reading
  • Day

• I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • She
  • Girl
  • Red

• As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Support
  • Taken
  • Last

• The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Artist

• If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mystery

• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • Small

• Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Important
  • Country
  • Winning

• I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Journey

• Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nation
  • Election
  • Americans