George W. Bush Quotes
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
Quotes to Explore
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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You wore out a brand new trunk, packin' and unpackin your junk.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
