Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

Bill Clinton

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Long
  • Respect

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

  

  LaToya London
  • Career
  • Publicity
  • Fox

• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Clever

• When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Best
  • Thought
  • First

• So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World

• There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Alien

• I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I had maybe 200 followers when I started. A bunch of radio stations were like, 'Uhhhhhh, my daughter has more followers than her'.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Daughter

• I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

  

  Christopher Walken

• Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Different
  • Together

• After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Different

• Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • People
  • Live

• I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

  

  Christopher Buckley

• I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Amazing

• If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Failure
  • Rejection

• The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Men
  • Done
  • Success

• Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Failure
  • Guarantee
  • Pessimism