Barbara Bush Quotes
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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It is no longer enough to have a good product. A company's purpose and the way it treats its employees and the global community to which it belongs is also of great importance.
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Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don’t like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
