Irving R. Kaufman Quotes

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Irving R. Kaufman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1910 - February 1, 1992

Topics

SomeoneYouAuthoritySpecialDivine

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ExperienceStorySayWillUpMay

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

Joan Didion

GoodOpportunityTruthPowerTime

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Robert Hass

LiteraturePoetAskedPoet Laureate

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

Siri Hustvedt

MeGardenRelaxingVery

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

Trudie Styler

RelationshipThinkLongNeedOur

When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy mills have gone undetected for so long.

Tony Cardenas

LiveLongYouWonderAnimalsWhy

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Mathias Rust

ChooseScaredSomewhereBecauseKGB

It's OK showing yourself some love.

Mary J. Blige

LoveYourselfOKSomeShowing

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Lisa Guerrero

FootballMeFanHeRaisedHuge

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

Joseph Pulitzer

DemocracyFeetWayMatterIndividual

Banking now is like sending a letter: you send it, you don't know if it reached there. Ripple is more like sending an iMessage: you send it, and you immediately know.

Chris Larsen

RippleYouKnowNowMoreBanking

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

HopeMyselfI AmWhereMainAm

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