Bel Kaufman Quotes
Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing.
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In addition we also hire many senior citizens.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and, did I consider myself an European, I might say my sufferings were great; but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favorite of heaven, and acknowledge the mercies of Providence in every occurrence of my life.
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Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
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What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
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Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
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We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.
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Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
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I’d rather win 5-4 than 1-0!
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
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I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.
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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.
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We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.
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I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...
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There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.
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When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.
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Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing.
