Bel Kaufman Quotes

Had set out to tell you exactly what happened. But since I am the one writing this, how do I know what in my telling I am selecting, omitting, emphasizing; what unconscious editing I am doing?

Bel Kaufman

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• You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Dad

• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
  • Overcome

• Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Health
  • Insurance

• The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Sunshine

• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Dies

• Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

  

  African Spir
  • Liberty
  • Distinct
  • Arbitrariness

• The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

  

  Brian Crozier
  • Government
  • Lawful
  • Unlawful

• Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

  

  Thomas Woods
  • Government
  • Ideas
  • Judging

• My campaign is about getting pets to be more active, and exercise with your animal is a great way for people to exercise. When you're out with your pet, it becomes fun. You don't think of it as a chore. For me, taking my dog out for a walk is very relaxing.

  

  Misty May-Treanor
  • Exercise
  • Active
  • Campaign

• With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Braggarts

• I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Design
  • I Can
  • Editing

• I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

  

  Nina Menkes
  • Feel
  • Camera
  • Editing

• Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Done
  • Want
  • Dark

• The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Culture
  • Purpose
  • Feelings

• The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • World
  • Tired
  • Autumn

• Had set out to tell you exactly what happened. But since I am the one writing this, how do I know what in my telling I am selecting, omitting, emphasizing; what unconscious editing I am doing?

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Editing
  • Selecting
  • Emphasizing