Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

Bill Clinton

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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Start

• I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Job

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Party
  • Single

• Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.

  

  Ovid

• When we talk of a resurgent Asia, people think of the great changes that have come about in Shanghai. I share this aspiration to transform Mumbai in the next five years in such a manner that people would forget about Shanghai and Mumbai will become a talking point.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Great

• O my son, thy lips still smell of milk, and thy heart should go out to pleasure. But the days are grave, and Iran looketh unto thee in its danger.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • Heart
  • Son

• If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • She
  • Mother
  • Present

• The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World

• Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Trying

• I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • People
  • Done

• For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Wife

• Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Light

• In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

  

  Plato
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Speaking

• But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Truth
  • Values
  • Countries