Judy Blume Quotes

Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

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• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Evolution
  • Theory
  • Mental

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Glorification

• 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.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • People
  • Action
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Politics
  • Better
  • Indians

• When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Past
  • Nation
  • Landscape

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Hope
  • End
  • Management

• My hair walks into a room before I do.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Hair
  • Room
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Great

• In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

  

  Kimi Raikkonen
  • Different
  • May
  • Interesting

• Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

  

  Kehlani
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  David Chang
  • Time

• Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Country
  • Support

• I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • Why
  • Fall
  • Smart

• I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

  

  Alberto Fujimori
  • Life
  • Team
  • Health

• Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Live
  • Book
  • History

• Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

  

  Alison McGhee

• Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

  

  Judy Blume