Hillary Clinton Quotes
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
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As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
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Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.
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God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
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I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.
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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
