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 have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Like
  • Times
  • Instagram

• 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

• I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Smile
  • Nervous
  • Friendliness

• 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

• So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • American
  • Band

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

  

  James Allen
  • Power
  • Thoughts

• Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.

  

  Colin Wilson

• It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Giving

• 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