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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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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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
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Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?
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You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
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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.
