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My worst expectations never happened.

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
Happened
Never
Expectations
Worst

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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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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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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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. . . 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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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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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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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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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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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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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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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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