Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I love anything to do with history.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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He had a vision of a nation. The incredible martial skills of the Mongol tribes had always been wasted against each other. From nothing, surrounded by enemies, Temujin rose to unite them all. What came next would shake the world.
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Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.
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Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.
