Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

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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.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Job
  • Nature
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Change
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Important
  • Ideas

• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Faith
  • Dry

• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • Ability
  • New

• 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.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Important
  • Very
  • Outside

• 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.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • God
  • Bad

• You can't get much whiter than me.

  

  Pitbull

• 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.

  

  David Robinson The Cars

• Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

  

  Alison Tyler

• 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.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • Writing
  • Hand

• Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.

  

  Jan Schakowsky

• It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.

  

  Clive Barker

• We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

  

  Al Dubin
  • Money
  • Depression
  • Wrong

• Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.

  

  Jillionaire
  • History
  • Future
  • Culture

• A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

  

  John Roos
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Entrepreneur

• Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Obligation