George H. W. Bush Quotes
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I got no hate in me.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
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I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that “arrogant,” “headstrong,” “narcissistic,” and “cold” will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.
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Read my lips: no new taxes.
