Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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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.
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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.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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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.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
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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.
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I had maybe 200 followers when I started. A bunch of radio stations were like, 'Uhhhhhh, my daughter has more followers than her'.
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I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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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.
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Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
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Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.
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For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
