Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.
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I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.
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When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.
