Barbara Bush Quotes
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ's return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
