Bel Kaufman Quotes
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.
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I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.
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What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence.
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I feel it's my responsibility to be able to take care of my family by living off the land. That's the ultimate goal for a man.
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We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
