Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

Bill Clinton

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• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Actor
  • Influences
  • Were

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• Acting is a form of confession.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confession

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Technology
  • Focus
  • Media

• Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Peace
  • Popularity

• It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Quality

• Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• Happiness needs one-upmanship.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Happiness
  • Needs

• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Thought
  • Better

• Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Time
  • Power
  • Holiday

• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Recognition

• During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • Summer

• The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Ends

• When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Power
  • President
  • Political forces