Barbara Bush Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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'Most of my business comes from picking up the pieces when people get things wrong.' She grinned. 'I’ll never lack for work.'
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I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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I sort of have to have a positive outlook.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
