George H. W. Bush Quotes
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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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.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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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.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.
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An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
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Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
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I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
