Jenna Bush Quotes
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I'm not locked into playing one guy.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.
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I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
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A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.
