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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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.
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I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.
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I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
