Bel Kaufman Quotes
She luxuriated in these disembodied telephone conversations. “Darling, I can almost see you, almost touch you now.” It was intimate yet distant; thrilling yet safe.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
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I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
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We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.
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The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.
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And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.
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We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.
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Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
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So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
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The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
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That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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He's been a different player since he has been back. We want to evaluate him, so he'll get the bulk of the playing time down the stretch.
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I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
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She luxuriated in these disembodied telephone conversations. “Darling, I can almost see you, almost touch you now.” It was intimate yet distant; thrilling yet safe.
