Barbara Bush Quotes
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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I do not like violence.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.
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There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
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I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
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It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
