George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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We are all terminal.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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Old guys can still do fun things.
