Bertha Knight Landes Quotes
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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I can never find the right bras.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
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Truth happens to an idea
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
