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Bess Truman Quotes

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: first
Nationality: american
Birth: February 13, 1885 - October 18, 1982

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Woman Hat Husband Place Silent Sit

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

Law Think Enough Wall Street Him

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

Jerry Della Femina

Happy Tax Now Fair Right Pay

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

John Patrick Shanley

Sea Blue Deep Get Only Made

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Door World You Understand Try Deal

I've always been a misfit.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

Branford Marsalis

Stupid Think Long You Play Stage

Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

People Book Think End Wings Choice

I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.

Annie Leibovitz

Stand Celebrity Word Brash

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Good People Me Feel Good Feel Fans

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

Small Independence Country Africa

For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.

Black America Escape Adventurous

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

Dreams Future Tomorrow People World

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