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.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Television
  • Too Much

• I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Playing

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Support
  • Responsibility

• I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Evangelical

• Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Movies

• I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Exposure

• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Book
  • Write

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Like
  • Same
  • Two

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Trying
  • Been
  • Washington

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Covered

• If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • May
  • You
  • Stop

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Old
  • Grow

• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Way

• I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Flower

• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Come
  • Detour