George H. W. Bush Quotes
I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
George H. W. Bush
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
Danica McKellar
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill
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I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself.
Kurt Vile
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Directing an austere look at Tubby’s receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher.
P. G. Wodehouse
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We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
Pablo Neruda
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Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
Don Rickles
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
Anthony Browne
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I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
George H. W. Bush