Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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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.
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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.
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I built a relationship and a rapport with Muhammad Ali, and I could never top that experience.
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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.
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I've got to have a bet going in order to play my best.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.
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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.
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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.
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My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers, we will be able to develop customer-centric innovations.
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Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
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Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
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Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five themes for one character. And five themes for another. And then I'll take one piece of one of them and put it with a piece of another one for that character or take another theme from another character and move it into this character.... And when I have my characters finally dressed, then he composes.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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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.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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That sense of power was all she craved.
