Bel Kaufman Quotes
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski
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One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
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I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
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If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
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As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.
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Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.
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To meet this expense, he sold his violin. Besides, Charlotte did not care for music.
