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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Journalists said they had never seen so many funny women as leads when we did 'Hotwives' - we had a cast of seven very funny women. That doesn't happen.
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From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.
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Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
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So important that you get out and vote. So important that you watch other communities, because we don't want this election stolen from us. We don't want this election stolen from us.
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If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
