Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
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In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
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I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors.
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It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
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I'm not a fan of musicals. Never have been.
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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
