Bertha Knight Landes Quotes

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Bertha Knight Landes

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Heart
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Up
  • Good
  • True

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mum

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Want
  • You
  • Never

• Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Wig

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Irving Stone
  • School
  • Stop
  • Design

• In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Quality

• I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Movies
  • Kid
  • Watch

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• 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.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Why

• The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Taken

• I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Movies

• And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Mistake
  • Prejudice
  • Ridiculous

• In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

  

  Bertha Knight Landes
  • Politics
  • Prejudice
  • Overcome