Hillary Clinton Quotes
In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.
Quotes to Explore
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
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I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.
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When you speak the truth, people realize that.
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One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.
