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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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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I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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Maybe one day, I will go to Pakistan and meet these fans who like me and my work. At the end of the day, we are all the same, and meeting my fans there is something that I have on my mind.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.
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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
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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.
