George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
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I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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My colleagues on the Board of Governors and I understand the value of having a diverse financial system that includes a large and vibrant contingent of community banks.
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. 'They are tall,' said he, 'and comely, but bear no fruit.'
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Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.
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Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
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The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.
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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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No, I'm not anguished and tormented.
