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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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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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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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.
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Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
