Judy Blume Quotes

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

Judy Blume

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• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Things
  • Possible
  • Slow

• Look good, feel good, play good.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• Someone has to stand up for wimps.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Someone

• Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Political
  • Numbers
  • Data

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Alabama

• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Thoughts

• I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Live
  • Girl
  • Beach

• I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• I've worn down America.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • America

• There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Passion
  • Beauty
  • Anger

• I think it's important to incorporate everything into all parts of your life. I don't separate all the things - during the day, I talk to my kids; they come and visit. On weekends, we go crazy and do lots of activities. I'm just not good at relaxing.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Years