Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Malcolm Boyd -
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas -
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
Nancy Lublin
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
Xenophon -
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
Zoe Wanamaker -
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
Yann Martel -
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
Rachel McAdams -
The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
Vincent Bugliosi -
In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
R. J. Cutler
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
Damien Hirst -
There's something wholesome about the theatre.
Ian Mckellen -
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
Abraham Verghese -
In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
Warren Farrell -
Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,While resignation gently slopes the way;And, all his prospects brightening to the last,His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Oliver Goldsmith -
R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care … TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me.
Aretha Franklin
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Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.
Ben Schnetzer -
I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.
Harry S Truman -
If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.
James A. Michener -
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
Wilfred Owen -
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...
Bill Clinton