Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
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No one comes into our house and pushes us around.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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Petunias are as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things. The amazing thing, I think, historically, is that he says, "Go do it. If you can make this happen, I'll follow you."
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I don't want to rewrite history.
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.
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The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
