Barbara Bush Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
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It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
