Beverly Cleary Quotes

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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  • Women
  • Guns

• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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  • Up
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• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
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• I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

  

  Vera Wang
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• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
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• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  

  Wavy Gravy
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  • Up

• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

  Flula Borg
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• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

  

  James Surowiecki
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• People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

  

  Don McLean
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  • Time
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• Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people's attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
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• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
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• People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

  

  Beverly Cleary
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  • Children