Judy Blume Quotes
I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
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Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
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This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.
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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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I wouldn't mind taking a stab at... I'd love to take a shot at 'Doctor Strange' at some point.
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He had noted that with older people. They often try to control younger, more popular and vivacious people; usually due to the fact that they are jealous of the qualities the younger people have and they lack. These inadequacies are disguised with a benign, protective attitude.
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Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.
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Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.
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I don't see myself doing slapstick movies or being a part of them, even if they get the box office ringing. It's not my space; I haven't reached that point.
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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.
