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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.

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
Barbara Pierce
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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.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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