Beverly Cleary Quotes
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
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A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
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In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.
Garry Kasparov -
Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.
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il Zénon savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant.
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
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Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
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The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
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Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
