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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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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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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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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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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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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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!
