Bel Kaufman Quotes
Many of us, her mind repeated, walking with vague symptoms, breathing fear. So many of us who, through love, have a stake in life.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I have a great office.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.
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The flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.
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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
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Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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Many of us, her mind repeated, walking with vague symptoms, breathing fear. So many of us who, through love, have a stake in life.
