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.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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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.
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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.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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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.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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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.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I was never tempted by the Premier League. It's simply a personal opinion.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
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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.
