Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
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Oculus really started popularizing a new approach using cellphone screen technology, a wide field of view, and super-low-latency sensor tracking. It's not crappy stuff that doesn't work and makes everybody sick. When you experience Oculus technology, it's like getting religion on contact. People that try it walk out a believer.
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I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.
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People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.
