Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

Bill Clinton

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• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • White

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
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• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
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• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Ambition

• Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Sometimes

• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Freedom
  • Destroying
  • Creeds

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Attention
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  • Pressure

• I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

  

  Ian McShane
  • School
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• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Think

• I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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  • Street

• While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • While

• We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Silent
  • Worlds
  • Spaces

• But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Great
  • Country
  • Always

• My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

  

  James Otis
  • Time
  • God
  • Hope

• When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

  

  Anthony Fauci

• Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Actors

• Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Arithmetic