Andrew Kaufman Quotes
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Golf is not easy.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
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I'm old-fashioned that way. I don't believe you turn the president down.
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When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
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Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.
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Why do bad things happen to good people?Because it makes a good story.
