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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.

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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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 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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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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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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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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