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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Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.
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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.
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Sleep nourishes, sure, but it also absolves, removing the demands of the daily, the duties and tasks, and the pesky need to exist.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
