Laura Bush Quotes
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.
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I don't like possessions.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
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It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christianity to Ireland, and we celebrate St. Patrick's day every single year, but there's very few practising Catholics or practising Christians.
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The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'
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In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.
