Bertha Knight Landes Quotes
Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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Gonna pull in the shutters on this heart of mineRoll up the carpets and pull in the blindsAnd retreat to the chambers that I left behindIn hopes there still may be love left to findStill may be love left to find.
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'I have come to kill you.'The death’s heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.'
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I have never ever argued about billings because I don’t think that they mean anything.
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
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I don't believe we're meant to just die and go to nothing.
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I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
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Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.
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I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
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My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother - I loved him so much.
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I don't trust people who are likable.
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Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.
