Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.
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Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to work to get rid of it. They also are very strong for keeping the government running.
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I would've loved to dress Diana Vreeland. I just loved her work as a creative woman and as a business woman - unpredictable, exciting, fun, and very, very clever.
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We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
