Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I love action movies.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
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Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
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We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.
