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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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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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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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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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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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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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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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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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As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
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Don't take things too seriously.
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Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.
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All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
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We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
