Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
-
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
-
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
-
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
-
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
-
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
-
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
-
For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
-
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
-
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
-
I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
-
The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
-
I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
-
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
-
I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
-
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
-
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
-
I wanna say thank you cause: Makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. makes me that much wiser. so thanks for making me a fighter!
-
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.
-
I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
-
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
