Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.
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Research from these new disciplines has revealed that trauma produces actual physiological changes, including a recalibration of the brain’s alarm system, an increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the system that filters relevant information from irrelevant. We now know that trauma compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. They also help us understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problems and have such trouble learning from experience. We now know that their behaviors are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character—they are caused by actual changes in the brain.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
