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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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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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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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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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 most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
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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
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I like criticism. It makes you strong.
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I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.
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There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.
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In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
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Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past… so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
