Lauren Bush Quotes
I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Before we leave for South Africa it is key for us to keep building on our combinations within the squad.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.
