Bel Kaufman Quotes
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
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Worship God. It’s easier than thinking.
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When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
