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 admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
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How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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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.
