George H. W. Bush Quotes
I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
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What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
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I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
