George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Women are over 50 percent of the population.
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I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.
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I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.
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Losing is tough.
