Barbara Bush Quotes
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
