Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
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We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.
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She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
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Hillary Clinton really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
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When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.
