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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

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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American
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Someone
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Overseas
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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'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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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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