Bel Kaufman Quotes
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
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The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.
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The soul is the truth of who we are.
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The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
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This goes along with who we are as a society. Somebody does something exceptional, people are looking for ways to denigrate them.
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I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
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Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.
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The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
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The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.
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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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Are you saying you're going to need teachers or not?
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
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If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.
