George H. W. Bush Quotes
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
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A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
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But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.
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I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
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As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.
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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
