Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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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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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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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
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I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.
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Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
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Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique, it doesn't make you all that great.
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I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.
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I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
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I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet Jackson likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.
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Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
