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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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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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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'What happened?''Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?' She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.
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I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
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But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not.
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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
