Barbara Bush Quotes
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
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In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
