Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
