Bob Kaufman Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
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Longer than there've been fishes in the oceanHigher than any bird ever flew.Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens,I've been in love with you.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
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I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
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Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.
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’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
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Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
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My favorite thing to do is to perform. It doesn't matter if people are watching or not because either way, I see 50,000 people when I close my eyes, and I will give a show for those thousands of people, regardless if you see them or not.
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Would You Wear My Eyes?
