Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.

Bill Clinton

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• Marijuana
• Imprisonment
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• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Think
  • Photography
  • General

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Political
  • Human

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Piano

• I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Work
  • Done
  • London

• My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!

  

  Walter Savage Landor

• The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Great
  • School
  • Bad

• Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right.

  

  David Cameron
  • Up

• It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Small
  • Team

• Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• The new science of communication is percept, not concept. (p. 259)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Science
  • Communication

• In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles

• Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Believe
  • City
  • Environment

• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Why
  • War
  • True

• And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Reason
  • Breath
  • Scarlett

• The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

  

  Jon Lee Anderson
  • Force
  • Medicine
  • Occupation

• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Me
  • Stop

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

  

  Alexander Elder
  • Money
  • Goal
  • Trader

• I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Policy
  • Marijuana
  • Imprisonment