Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
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A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'
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The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
