Bel Kaufman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.
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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.
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'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.
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I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter Because the flesh will get weak And the ashes will scatter So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
