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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

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
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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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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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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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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