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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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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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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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.
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Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.
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I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
