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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Ambassador Kennedy brings to the Boeing board professional, diplomatic, and global perspectives that are highly valued in our rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive global business environment. Her diversity of experience and accompanying insights will broaden and strengthen our board in its deliberative and oversight roles for the company.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
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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.”
