Judy Blume Quotes
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.
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I like to keep my money at the end of the day.
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Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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These entrepreneurs were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review, … but by a lack of custom.
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Eleven dead bodies. One dead cat. No breasts.
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I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
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I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
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If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the variety of directors you have on a season, you rarely get that opportunity. It's more structured.
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Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
