William J. Clinton Quotes

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.

William J. Clinton

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HistoryThinkBackCountryDefeated

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

Jenni Rivera

TimeHobbySeriouslyYearsTakeSix

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

FamilyTimePastWritingStoryMore

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

Ronnie Dunn

LoveHomeMusicTimeMoneyMan

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

GoodMannersLyingGood MannersHalf

We have to end Medicare as we know it. We have to fix it.

Mick Mulvaney

EndKnowFixMedicare

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

WishMy OwnMoreNeverI WishOwn

I think the hardest thing is to design for plus-size women. I enjoyed designing for straight-size because there's no limits. They can basically wear anything, and that's where I was able to have creative freedom with it.

Ashley Nell Tipton

WomenFreedomCreativeLimitsThink

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Audre Lorde

WorkKeyDoingSurvivalDownMatter

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

Pierce Brosnan

LifeMy LifeArtistPaintStarted

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

Thomas Hoving

WorkGreatArtMatterNeverHard

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

Marina Abramovic

MotherRelationshipSleepMeNight

The politicians said Dr. Tom Coburn couldn't deliver babies when he got elected to the U.S. Senate.

Markwayne Mullin

SaidPoliticiansGotDeliverSenate

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