Jenna Bush Quotes
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
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I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
