George H. W. Bush Quotes
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.
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The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!
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No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.
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I'm sipping on you like some fine wine, thoughAnd when it's over, I press rewind, though
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This is a decadent era. Its main characteristic is that it’s dependent on lies and cheating. Once it loses this characteristic, it can’t survive for even a day.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
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I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
