Laura Bush Quotes
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?
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Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
