Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
