Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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Hopeless are those who suffers the curse of heaven-so be hopeful.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
