Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Did I suffer from depression? Yes, a little, from time to time. Yes. … I'm not as depressed as I was. I get depressed now and then but not very much anymore. … At the height of it it was just God-awful. It was really bad.
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You can't get much whiter than me.
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In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.
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Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
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I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
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I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
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The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
