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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
Titanic
Professionals
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Built
Volunteers
Ark

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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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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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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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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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 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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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