Bel Kaufman Quotes
Each country has its own manner of telephoning. The Russians, at least, are honest. They say, “It is Ivan Ivanovich who is bothering you.”
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
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Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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I never use a computer.
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I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
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What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
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The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
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I'm really very visually attracted to Wonder Woman. She just looks great on the page.
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Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
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I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
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Each country has its own manner of telephoning. The Russians, at least, are honest. They say, “It is Ivan Ivanovich who is bothering you.”
