Bel Kaufman Quotes
That I was a writer was further proof of God’s far-sightedness; she was convinced that by some magic of propinquity she would acquire a mastery of the English language.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Governor Romney says he's against same-sex marriage because every child deserves a mother and a father. I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine... Mr. Romney, my family is just as real as yours.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.
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I want little girls to believe that they can be CEOs.
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That I was a writer was further proof of God’s far-sightedness; she was convinced that by some magic of propinquity she would acquire a mastery of the English language.
