Bel Kaufman Quotes
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
Veruschka von Lehndorff
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
Nas
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
J. K. Simmons
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No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
Rachel Zoe
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin
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I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never piss on a piece of stone at the fucking Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. I mean I know I'm a fucking crazy-ass but still.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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George W. Bush is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.
Christopher Hitchens
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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
Matthew Desmond
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I built a relationship and a rapport with Muhammad Ali, and I could never top that experience.
Leon Gast
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You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.
Charlotte Rampling
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The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley
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I've got to have a bet going in order to play my best.
Bobby Riggs
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
Patty Duke
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If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.
Matthew Goode
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When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
Alison Moyet
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Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
Charlaine Harris
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Camilo Jose Cela
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It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
Lyle Lovett
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The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this policy by insisting that positioning U.S. forces in distant lands fosters peace, stability, and security. In the present century, however, perpetuating this practice has visibly had the opposite effect. In the eyes of many of those called upon to "host" American bases, the permanent presence of such forces smacks of occupation. They resist. Why should U.S. policymakers expect otherwise?
Andrew Bacevich
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Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.
James B. Stewart
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That sense of power was all she craved.
Bel Kaufman
