Bel Kaufman Quotes
They both looked questioningly at Mr. Rogov. He slowly removed his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and translated: “Do not in not your own sled sit.” “I get it,” Mr. Martin chuckled good-naturedly, “You mean it’s none of my business.”
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.
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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
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After finishing my business administration course, I had gone to look for a job in a multinational bank, but the interviewee said that I should become an actor.
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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They both looked questioningly at Mr. Rogov. He slowly removed his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and translated: “Do not in not your own sled sit.” “I get it,” Mr. Martin chuckled good-naturedly, “You mean it’s none of my business.”
