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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.
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I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
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I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...
