Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
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As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
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Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
