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" You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die. "
Barbara Bush
Sister
Tell
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" I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting. "
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Parenting
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About
" Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. "
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Yourself
Believe
Time
" I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word. "
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Hate
People
Dirty
" 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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Own
Us
" 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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Family
Sit
" 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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You
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" And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! "
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Someone
Day
White
" You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. "
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Think
Luck
Opportunities
" My worst expectations never happened. "
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Worst
Expectations
Happened
" Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. "
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Nobody
Likes
Know
" It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean. "
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Had
Clean
Dumbest
" Let's judge a man on what he's done. "
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Man
He
Judge
" 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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Person
Women
Think
" I'm taking a vow not to advise. "
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Vow
Taking
Advise
" I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know. "
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Like
Know
Going
" 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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Why
People
Parents
" I'm a little old-fashioned. "
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Little
Old-Fashioned
" You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other. "
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Other
Done
Get
" I have a pig valve. "
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Pig
Valve
" I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong. "
Barbara Bush
Really
Very
Up
" I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over. "
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I Can
Still
Over
" I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all. "
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Living
Loved
White
" 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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You
Try
Political
" Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted. "
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Wasted
My Life
Me
" I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. "
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Money
Pick
Project
" Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. "
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People
World
Veterans Day
" I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. "
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Family
Think
Important
" I don't like attacking. "
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Attacking
" The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. "
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Left
Opinion