Bel Kaufman Quotes
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.
Bel Kaufman
Quotes to Explore
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
G. Willow Wilson
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
Walter Payton
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
Sam Simon
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
Hanya Yanagihara
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
Bartlett Sher
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
Natalie Gulbis
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Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.
Kelsea Ballerini
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey
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Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.
Alexander Lowen
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Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.
Amy Poehler
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From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?
Mac Anderson
