Bel Kaufman Quotes
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.
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I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.
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I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.
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I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.
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Most computers today have built in backup software.
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To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
