Bel Kaufman Quotes
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
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Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.
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I respect Conor McGregor's style.
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Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
