Barbara Bush Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
