Barbara Bush Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
