Bel Kaufman Quotes

I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.

Bel Kaufman

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• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

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• My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

  

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• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

  

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• We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

  

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• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

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• I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

  

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  • Men
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• His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

  

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• With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.

  

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  • Great
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• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  

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• I saturated myself with the improv community.

  

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• I believe in the power of play.

  

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• It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

  

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• Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

  

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• Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

  

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• Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

  

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• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

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• I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate...but I don’t have…a central cause…a motivating cause, I don’t know what that would be…other than trying to tell the truth when I work.

  

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• I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Father
  • Friend
  • Surprized