Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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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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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
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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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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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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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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
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The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.
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One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
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I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe.
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
