A Quote by George W. Bush

It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

George W. Bush

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George W. Bush
American - President
Born: July 6, 1946

Human beings are addicted to power in an interesting way, and this is what makes a lot of people feel powerful: belittling people that are commonly belittled. I think if we understood that this was going on, that this was the mechanism at work within us, we wouldn't be that way.

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I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

Susan Orlean

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

George W. Bush

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

Jodi Picoult

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

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It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.

Brad Bird

The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume gossip. We have the same appetite for gossip, but now its acquisition is even easier than grabbing sugary and fatty foods off a supermarket shelf. And look where that got us. When you watch people in public desperately punching away at their machines, it's hard not to think of addictions.

Zia Haider Rahman

It's hard for me to believe sometimes that my three kids never met my dad. Because one of the things - one of the real blessings to me is that while my dad left this Earth when I was in my 20s, he's just as much a part of, of my life now than he was then, in terms of I often think of my dad. I think of what my dad might do in a certain situation. And so he continues to be, you know, my hero, my role model.

Mike Pence

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

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Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

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A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.

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It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.

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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

Landon Donovan

The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.