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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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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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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The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
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Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
