Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

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• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Sin
  • Longer
  • Forsake

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Risk

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Ocean
  • Confused

• A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Man
  • Science

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Understand
  • Young
  • Social

• You'd think it would be easier for writers to make a living, but it's not. Fortunately, I love to teach.

  

  James Blaylock

• I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Take

• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  

  Jayma Mays
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Country
  • Family
  • Conscious decision