Judy Blume Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
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Everyone has Good and Bad Times. Find your creative/thinking time. Defend it ruthlessly, spend it alone, maybe at home. Find your dead time. Schedule meetings, phone calls, and mundane stuff during it.
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.
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I've knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.
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There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.
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People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.
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The first thing I do in the morning is have an espresso - straight up - and read the papers. I like 'The Independent,' 'The Times,' and the 'Financial Times.'
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I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty.
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In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
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Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
