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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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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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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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
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I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.
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I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
