Judy Blume Quotes

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• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Who

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Medical

• Isn't she lovely made from love?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Love
  • She
  • Made

• So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Brain
  • Pictures
  • Surgery

• I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Vegetables
  • Satisfactory
  • Thrilling

• Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Good
  • Moments
  • Fleeting

• The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Die
  • Body

• Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Breathing

• I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Kids

• The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• Delay is the enemy of progress.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Progress
  • Enemy
  • Delay

• Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Constitution

• Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Future
  • Vision

• I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.

  

  Sarah Vaughan
  • People
  • Song
  • Kind

• There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Graduation

• I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Experience
  • Hate
  • Daughter

• The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Voice
  • Intellect
  • Gained

• Without peanut butter, I might starve.

  

  Judy Blume
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