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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.
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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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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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