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.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Work
  • Train
  • Cats

• 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.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Work
  • Never
  • Moving On

• 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.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Hollywood
  • Italy

• 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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• 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!

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Country
  • New
  • Sheep

• 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.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Live
  • Questions

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Country
  • Single
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Deep

• I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • People
  • Respect

• I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Work
  • Country