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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Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
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That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
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If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
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I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.
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I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
