George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.
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I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
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I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.
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I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.
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There was a moment's silence;and then to her bewilderment, Christopher suddenly went into one of his wild gusts of laughter. "F-f-fifty shillings?" he gasped " Oh Kate! Here I am the king at his death time , and you won't even let me spen fifty shillings!
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
