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J. Carter Brown
Director Emeritus
National Gallery of Art
I'm just a sunny personality that has this idea that everything's going to come out all right. When I was diagnosed with cancer just this last year, I figured, "Okay, well that's what apparently is in the deck that I've been dealt, and we'll just do the best we can." Don't let it put you into a slough of despond. One thing I really fear is living too long and becoming one of these vegetables and a burden to everybody and to yourself. And so, I've had such a rich life, such fabulous opportunities, that I feel, "Okay, take it as it comes."
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Willie Brown
Former Mayor of San Francisco
You're going to be vilified. You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is. Your sanity is going to be questioned. Your integrity -- to its soul -- is going to be questioned. Your just unadulterated honesty is going to be questioned. And if you let any of that interfere with you, if you let that define who you are, you should get out of this business. I don't let anybody define who Willie Brown is, except Willie Brown. I stopped speaking in the third person a long time ago, but to make this point, I'd have to do it that way. No one defines me for me. I've got the self-confidence that what I do and how I do it is consistent with what's in the best public interest. All I have to do is sell it. And so far I've been able to do that. That's my shield.
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George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States
Then we lost a child, there was that incident, a four year-old little girl. It had a profound effect on me and on Barbara. You know, when you lose a child some families go apart. There's a common wisdom that the loss of a loved one for parents divides them later on. People cite divorce statistics. In our case it was just the other way around. And our family has been close, close, close. And Barbara and I have been married for over 50 years, and I think that horrible incident drew us even closer together.
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