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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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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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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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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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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National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes.
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In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.
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But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.
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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
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When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
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Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
