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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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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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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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'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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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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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