George H. W. Bush Quotes
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
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Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.
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You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.
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We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
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The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
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Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.
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I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
