Beverly Cleary Quotes
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
