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" 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. "
Barbara Bush
Think
Luck
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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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" I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. "
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" I don't like attacking. "
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" I'm taking a vow not to advise. "
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" It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on. "
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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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" My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George? "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. "
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" I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else. "
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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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" I'm not a one-issue person. "
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" I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. "
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" You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other. "
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Get
" 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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Clean
Dumbest
" Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. "
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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 like the blame game, though. "
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" At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. "
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Life
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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'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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" I have a pig valve. "
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" I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong. "
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Up
" 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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" You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. "
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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 worried about parents who aren't parenting. "
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