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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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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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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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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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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The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we're always kind of like, what are they doing?
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
