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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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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.
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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.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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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.
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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.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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Thank God my life is normal. I work hard to make it normal. My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.
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Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
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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.
