Bel Kaufman Quotes
Reading between the lines, I got the impression of dull domesticity that had settled upon them like fine dust.
Quotes to Explore
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
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People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
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We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.
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I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.
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One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
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Anyone who thinks I'm a plastic-surgery freak is insane.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
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Reading between the lines, I got the impression of dull domesticity that had settled upon them like fine dust.
