Judy Blume Quotes
With "Summer Sisters" the publisher sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?
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Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.
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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
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I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.
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I think diversity has to happen on a storytelling level, not just on a casting level.
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
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Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!
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I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.
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With "Summer Sisters" the publisher sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.
