Bob Kaufman Quotes
Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
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People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.
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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.
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Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.
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Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
