Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

Bill Clinton

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• When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Know

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
  • War

• Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • You
  • Say

• If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Girl

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Strong
  • Ideas
  • Ready

• I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • War
  • Moment

• Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • House
  • Parents
  • You

• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • China
  • Communist

• When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Team

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Wishes
  • Liar

• The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Space

• I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Action
  • Support
  • Actions

• Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • World
  • Horror
  • Guns

• I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Goal
  • Discipline
  • Perfectionist

• Monica Langley of the "Wall Street Journal" is reporting that Donald Trump's strategy is essentially two-pronged. that he's trying to use the split in the GOP to rally his base and trying to depress Democratic turnout.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Trying
  • Wall
  • Trump

• That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains.

  

  K. W. Jeter
  • Give
  • Guns
  • Brains

• A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Living
  • Killing
  • Photographers

• You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Strategy
  • Opponents
  • Brains