Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • American
  • Science
  • Small

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • College
  • Doing
  • Improv

• The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Marriage

• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Married

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Love
  • Man
  • Giving

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• When a song is written, depending on who wrote what, the percentage split between the writers and performers must be agreed. In a democracy, e.g. New Order, it was all split into quarters, 25 per cent each, and the same for the performance royalties. This stayed the same up until Republic, when Barney decided he wanted more, and truth be told, he deserved it. He was doing two jobs.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Song
  • Democracy
  • Performers

• I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • People
  • Moving

• I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • People
  • Depression

• I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Amazing
  • Sleep
  • Couple

• I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Together

• There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • President