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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There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.
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The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
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He checked, of course. Being sure and being willing to risk that surety against his future were not the same thing.
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We've made a historic decision tonight on behalf of Croatia.
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Read my lips: no new taxes.
