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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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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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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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
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But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
