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.
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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.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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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.
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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.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
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My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!
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London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
