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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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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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
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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.
