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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
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Built
Volunteers
Ark

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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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. . . 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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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 First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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