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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One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.
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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
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I work six months and get three or four with the family.
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I came across the script 42, and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.
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And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.
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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
