Bel Kaufman Quotes
Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
Bel Kaufman
Quotes to Explore
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
FKA twigs
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
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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.
Samuel Dash
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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.
Victoria Osteen
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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.
B. B. King
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
Harlan Coben
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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.
Victoria Jackson
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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.
Earl Nightingale
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
Octavia E. Butler
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To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.
Lela Loren
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Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
Katherine McNamara
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I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".
Ella Baker
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I love my religion, I love everything about it, but at the same time, I love my career, and I want to do it with the same love and compassion.
Karen Civil
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We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.
Etty Hillesum
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
Bel Kaufman
