Judy Blume Quotes
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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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.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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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.
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There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
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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.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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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.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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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.
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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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.
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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.
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I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
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I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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Without peanut butter, I might starve.
