Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
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My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
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If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.
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I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
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I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.
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You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.
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Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
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Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
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The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.
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I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.
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All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore.
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It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his music-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's music that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the 'secret tone.'
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You’re not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.
