Bertha Knight Landes Quotes
Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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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.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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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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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
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I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Of all that makes us suffer, nothing - so much as disappointment - gives us the sensation of at last touching Truth.
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.
