Bel Kaufman Quotes
I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.Bel Kaufman
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
Octavia Spencer -
I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht -
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln -
I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
Garth Brooks -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
Damien Hirst
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon -
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady -
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
Harland Williams -
When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
R. Kelly -
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor -
The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
Taraji P. Henson
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
Daniel Everett -
The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.
Yair Lapid -
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
Fernando Pessoa -
Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
Jack McDevitt -
I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
Ali Larter
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
Meghan O'Rourke -
I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.
Fred Willard -
You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
Wayne Newton -
I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
Nate Diaz -
I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
Bel Kaufman