Barbara Bush Quotes

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Barbara Bush

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• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
  • Playing

• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Want
  • House
  • Know

• The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Never Stop

• The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Challenge

• Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Grow
  • Cash

• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Bad
  • Poet
  • Where

• I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Country
  • Done

• I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Dark

• I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I’ve always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I’ve written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it’s just part of the job.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham

• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.

  

  David Harewood
  • Charity

• My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • She
  • Mother
  • Career

• I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • God
  • Done
  • Guy

• O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Soul
  • Giving
  • Chance

• When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Today

• If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficult choice, which is, you know, do I - what do I do?

  

  Peter Bergen

• No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Dog
  • Handsome
  • Mannered

• Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.

  

  Barbara Bush