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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America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakeable. Our friendship with Israel is deep and enduring. And so we believe that any lasting peace must acknowledge the very real security concerns that Israel faces every single day.
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After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!
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Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.
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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
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How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough?' But I proved them wrong.
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I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
