Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
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I am thankful to those who've listened to my story over and over as well as those who've helped me share it. For me, the act of storytelling is an act of healing.
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To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.
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Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
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He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions--it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.
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If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
