Bel Kaufman Quotes
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
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As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.
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It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.
Gail Devers -
I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
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I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
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The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian, grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas.
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Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.
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I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.
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Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.
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Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
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Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.
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Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
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I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.
