Linda Vester Quotes
What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
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Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.
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What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
