Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

Bill Clinton

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• It's better to do a film that works.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Better
  • Works

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Different
  • Car

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Day
  • Learning

• I'm an emotional guy.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Guy
  • Emotional

• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
  • Design

• A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Running
  • Ideas
  • Company

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• History is past politics, and politics is present history.

  

  Edward Augustus Freeman
  • History
  • Past
  • Politics

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Art
  • Acting
  • Fake

• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Attempt

• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Choice
  • Results
  • Weapons

• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • History
  • Government
  • Problems