Bertha Knight Landes Quotes

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

Bertha Knight Landes

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• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

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• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

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• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

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• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

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• My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
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• The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
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• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
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• I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
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• If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Help
  • Play
  • Sometimes

• I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Great
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  • Feet

• I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Know
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• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
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• I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
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• I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

  

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• Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

  

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• When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
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• Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• You can’t magically change your gender. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age.

  

  Ben Shapiro
  • Age
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• Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Sex
  • Alliance

• Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

  

  Bertha Knight Landes
  • Sex
  • Womanhood
  • Public Servants