Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful

• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Idea
  • Starting
  • Studying

• I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • American
  • Tools
  • Accusation

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Commerce

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Better
  • Behavior

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Start

• I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • City

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Great
  • Support
  • Amazing

• All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.

  Colson Whitehead
  • World
  • Petty

• Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • God
  • House
  • Simple

• Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Confidence
  • Doubt
  • Attempts

• When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.

  

  Bill Clinton
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