Laura Bush Quotes
Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.
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Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
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Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.