Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.
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I don't speak for anyone but Cindy. (Chico CA May 2007)
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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During the Calciopoli scandal: 'A true gentleman never leaves his lady.'
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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.
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They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
