I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHThe winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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?
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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