But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
BARBARA BUSHI don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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