Bel Kaufman Quotes
Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”
Bel Kaufman
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
Aby Rosen
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
Samantha Power
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
Victor LaValle
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
H. Rap Brown
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
Hamilton Jordan
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
Lara Stone
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
Karin Slaughter
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
Halima Aden
