Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
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All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
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The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.
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I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
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Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.
