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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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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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 creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
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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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Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.
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I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times.
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The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.
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Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm. (32)
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I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
