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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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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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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I'm kind of a recluse.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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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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My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.
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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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When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
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While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
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When my dad died, my world crumbled.
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I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
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Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
