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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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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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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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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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 can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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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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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
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It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
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Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
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Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
