Laura Bush Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
