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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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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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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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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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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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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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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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.
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I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.
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I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.
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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.
