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.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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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.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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.
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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.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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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?
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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.
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The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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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.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...
