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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.

Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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