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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.

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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Governor
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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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 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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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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 don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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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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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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