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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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 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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