Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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Someday I'll be livin' in a big old cityAnd all you're ever gonna be is mean.Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit meAnd all you're ever gonna be is mean.Why you gotta be so mean?
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
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My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
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I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.
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I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.
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To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
