Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

Bill Clinton

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• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
  • FBI
  • July

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Drama
  • Skills
  • Group

• Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Creative

• I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Teach
  • Some

• I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Long
  • Win
  • Argument

• If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Regret
  • Compromise

• I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Years
  • Chinese

• ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Education
  • Change
  • Beginning

• I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

  

  Nelly
  • Good
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Laughing
  • Ifs

• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• We're trying to get better, and we're not where we want to be -- but we've progressed. If we stay consistent on defense, we'll be fine. We'll get the easy baskets and then won't have rely on jumpers.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Defense
  • Baskets

• He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Wisdom
  • Stupid
  • Act

• In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Success
  • Independent
  • Economy

• The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Children
  • Enjoyment
  • Anticipate

• I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Kids

• The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Children
  • Culture

• If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Games
  • Space aliens