Barbara Bush Quotes
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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Gays have got to be pro-life. As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are going to start aborting.
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We for a certainty are not the firstHave sat in taverns while the tempest hurledTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursedWhatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
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At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.
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I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
