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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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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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 spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.
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“Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour, and where do they go?”
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
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[Andy Murray] tries to get you to do a lot of different things. He tries to throw you off by giving you some slower balls and some harder balls.
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Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.