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.'

  

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• 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!

  

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

  

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

  

  Walt Disney
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• Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Done
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• Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

  

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• Save the gerund and screw the whale.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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• The editing work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

  

  Edward Blishen
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• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hand
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• 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