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Well, at least, books you know will be a complete waste of time.
Bryan Curtis, Chris Suellentrop, and Julia Turner of MSFT's Slate.com have picked out a selection of quotes from Bill Clinton's new bio.
- "I was so exhausted I fell asleep while the stripper was dancing and the goat head was looking up at me" (Pg. 197).
- "I remember one Easter in the 1950s, when I was fat and self-conscious" (pg. 11)
- "Hillary says the first time she ever saw me, I was in the Yale Law School lounge bragging to skeptical fellow students about the size of Hope watermelons" (pg. 14).
- As a kindergartner, Clinton broke his leg after trying—and failing—to jump over a rope tied from a tree to a swing set. From the resulting fear and feelings of clumsiness, he didn't learn to ride a bicycle without training wheels until he was 22 (pg. 19).
- "My favorite movies during [the late '50s] were the biblical epics: The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and especially The Ten Commandments, the first movie I recall paying more than a dime to see" (pg. 36).
- While reading Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice at Oxford, Clinton writes in his diary, "Soul is a word I use often enough to be Black, but of course, and I occasionally think unfortunately, I am not" (pg. 148).
- "[M]y major extracurricular interest from ninth grade on was the Order of DeMolay, a boys' organization sponsored by the Masons" (pg. 44).
- "In the ethics class [at Georgetown] I took good notes, and one day in August another student, who was smart as a whip but seldom attended class, asked me if I'd take a few hours and go over my notes with him before the final exam. ... [T]he guy got a B on the test. Twenty-five years later, when I became President, my old study partner Turki al-Faisal, son of the late Saudi king, was head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service, a position he held for twenty-four years" (pg. 110).
- "I had fantasized from time to time about being a doorman at New York's Plaza Hotel, at the south end of Central Park. Plaza doormen had nice uniforms and met interesting people from all over the world. I imagined garnering large tips from guests who thought that, despite my strange southern accent, I made good conversation" (pg. 172).
- In 1971, Clinton hits a Volkswagen and discovers he doesn't have his driver's license. "They stripped me of my belongings and took my belt so that I couldn't strangle myself, gave me a cup of coffee, and put me in a cell with a hard metal bed, a blanket, a smelly stopped-up toilet, and a light that stayed on (pg. 175).
- Robert Bork: His constitutional law class was Yale Law School's "most interesting class by far" (pg. 176).
- While on the road campaigning for Congress against John Paul Hammerschmidt in 1974, Clinton loses five of his students' law-school exams. "I was mortified. I offered the students the option of retaking the exam or getting full credit without a specific grade. They all took the credit, but one of them was particularly upset about it, because she was a good student who probably would have made an A, and because she was a good Republican who had worked for Congressman Hammerschmidt. I don't think she ever forgave me for losing the exam or for running against her old boss. I sure thought about it when, more than twenty years later, that former student, federal judge Susan Webber Wright, became the presiding judge in the Paula Jones case" (pg. 220-221).
- "Our bond market gambit would work beyond our wildest dreams, bringing lower interest rates, a soaring stock market, and a booming economy" (pg. 537).
- Some don't like touchy-feely games. At an early administration retreat at Camp David, "we were supposed to bond by sitting in a group, taking turns telling something about ourselves others didn't know." Clinton reveals he was mocked for being chubby as a child. Lloyd Bentsen and Robert Rubin refuse to participate (pg. 449).
- Gingrich's Republican Congress opposes big government and international air travel. "A surprising number of them didn't even have passports," Clinton reports (pg. 642).
- Clinton notes, apropos of nothing, that it has recently come to light that Thomas Jefferson fathered several children with slave Sally Hemmings (pg 882).
- In the middle of tense Middle East peace negotiations, Ehud Barak nearly dies after choking on a peanut (pg. 914).
- Clinton says he issued too few pardons on his way out the door—he wishes he had given passes to Webb Hubbell and Jim Guy Tucker. Of Marc Rich, whose ex-wife was a supporter: "I may have made a mistake, at least in the way I allowed the case to come to my attention, but I made the decision based on the merits" (pg 939-41).
- Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw teach him the card game Oh Hell! (pg. 516).
- Chelsea's sweet 16 party in 1996: Les Misérables at the National Theater, then paintball with friends at Camp David (pg. 701).
- Strom Thurmond, 94, tells Chelsea, "If I were 70 years younger, I'd court you!" (pg. 742).
- On a visit to Italy, the actor Roberto Benigni leaps into Clinton's arms and shrieks, "I love you!" (pg. 879).
- After a White House interview with Kenneth Starr, Clinton offers him a tour of the Lincoln Bedroom (pg. 653).
More Quotes Available at The Slate Condensed Clinton Biography
The New URL Courtesy of Google Cached Links
Bryan Curtis, Chris Suellentrop, and Julia Turner of MSFT's Slate.com have picked out a selection of quotes from Bill Clinton's new bio.
- "I was so exhausted I fell asleep while the stripper was dancing and the goat head was looking up at me" (Pg. 197).
- "I remember one Easter in the 1950s, when I was fat and self-conscious" (pg. 11)
- "Hillary says the first time she ever saw me, I was in the Yale Law School lounge bragging to skeptical fellow students about the size of Hope watermelons" (pg. 14).
- As a kindergartner, Clinton broke his leg after trying—and failing—to jump over a rope tied from a tree to a swing set. From the resulting fear and feelings of clumsiness, he didn't learn to ride a bicycle without training wheels until he was 22 (pg. 19).
- "My favorite movies during [the late '50s] were the biblical epics: The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and especially The Ten Commandments, the first movie I recall paying more than a dime to see" (pg. 36).
- While reading Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice at Oxford, Clinton writes in his diary, "Soul is a word I use often enough to be Black, but of course, and I occasionally think unfortunately, I am not" (pg. 148).
- "[M]y major extracurricular interest from ninth grade on was the Order of DeMolay, a boys' organization sponsored by the Masons" (pg. 44).
- "In the ethics class [at Georgetown] I took good notes, and one day in August another student, who was smart as a whip but seldom attended class, asked me if I'd take a few hours and go over my notes with him before the final exam. ... [T]he guy got a B on the test. Twenty-five years later, when I became President, my old study partner Turki al-Faisal, son of the late Saudi king, was head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service, a position he held for twenty-four years" (pg. 110).
- "I had fantasized from time to time about being a doorman at New York's Plaza Hotel, at the south end of Central Park. Plaza doormen had nice uniforms and met interesting people from all over the world. I imagined garnering large tips from guests who thought that, despite my strange southern accent, I made good conversation" (pg. 172).
- In 1971, Clinton hits a Volkswagen and discovers he doesn't have his driver's license. "They stripped me of my belongings and took my belt so that I couldn't strangle myself, gave me a cup of coffee, and put me in a cell with a hard metal bed, a blanket, a smelly stopped-up toilet, and a light that stayed on (pg. 175).
- Robert Bork: His constitutional law class was Yale Law School's "most interesting class by far" (pg. 176).
- While on the road campaigning for Congress against John Paul Hammerschmidt in 1974, Clinton loses five of his students' law-school exams. "I was mortified. I offered the students the option of retaking the exam or getting full credit without a specific grade. They all took the credit, but one of them was particularly upset about it, because she was a good student who probably would have made an A, and because she was a good Republican who had worked for Congressman Hammerschmidt. I don't think she ever forgave me for losing the exam or for running against her old boss. I sure thought about it when, more than twenty years later, that former student, federal judge Susan Webber Wright, became the presiding judge in the Paula Jones case" (pg. 220-221).
- "Our bond market gambit would work beyond our wildest dreams, bringing lower interest rates, a soaring stock market, and a booming economy" (pg. 537).
- Some don't like touchy-feely games. At an early administration retreat at Camp David, "we were supposed to bond by sitting in a group, taking turns telling something about ourselves others didn't know." Clinton reveals he was mocked for being chubby as a child. Lloyd Bentsen and Robert Rubin refuse to participate (pg. 449).
- Gingrich's Republican Congress opposes big government and international air travel. "A surprising number of them didn't even have passports," Clinton reports (pg. 642).
- Clinton notes, apropos of nothing, that it has recently come to light that Thomas Jefferson fathered several children with slave Sally Hemmings (pg 882).
- In the middle of tense Middle East peace negotiations, Ehud Barak nearly dies after choking on a peanut (pg. 914).
- Clinton says he issued too few pardons on his way out the door—he wishes he had given passes to Webb Hubbell and Jim Guy Tucker. Of Marc Rich, whose ex-wife was a supporter: "I may have made a mistake, at least in the way I allowed the case to come to my attention, but I made the decision based on the merits" (pg 939-41).
- Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw teach him the card game Oh Hell! (pg. 516).
- Chelsea's sweet 16 party in 1996: Les Misérables at the National Theater, then paintball with friends at Camp David (pg. 701).
- Strom Thurmond, 94, tells Chelsea, "If I were 70 years younger, I'd court you!" (pg. 742).
- On a visit to Italy, the actor Roberto Benigni leaps into Clinton's arms and shrieks, "I love you!" (pg. 879).
- After a White House interview with Kenneth Starr, Clinton offers him a tour of the Lincoln Bedroom (pg. 653).
More Quotes Available at The Slate Condensed Clinton Biography
The New URL Courtesy of Google Cached Links
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