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"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."
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"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
First
"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
Children
"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
Woman
"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
Money
"When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it."
Men
"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
Information
"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."
Death
"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
Children
"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
College
"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
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"I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever."
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"Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you."
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"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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"This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures."
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"If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky."
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"I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything."
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"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."
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