Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

Bill Clinton

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• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Pretty
  • Doubt
  • Silly

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Medals

• My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Baseball

• To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

  

  Walter Pater
  • People
  • Interesting

• Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Music

• Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Boy

• Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • May
  • Question

• The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Responsibility

• And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Democracy

• Art is not a Trojan horse.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art
  • Horse

• I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Home
  • House

• My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • Growing

• The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Moving

• You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.

  

  Max Richter

• Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • House
  • Play

• I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Brain

• I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

  

  Jon Fishman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Pretty

• The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • House
  • Congress
  • Fights