George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I don't like possessions.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!
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I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.
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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
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My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.
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At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.
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I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
