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 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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By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
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It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.
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First grade is the prelude of things to come, a life organized around frontal-lobe capacities: sitting still; keeping sphincters in check; being able to use words rather than acting out; understanding abstract and symbolic ideas; planning for tomorrow; and being in tune with teachers and classmates.
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You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks
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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.
