Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
BARBARA BUSHPeople who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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