Judy Blume Quotes

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

Judy Blume

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Age
  • Sometimes
  • Enemy

• You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Stronger

• Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Alone
  • Decision
  • Victory

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• My kids learned to be independent.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Independent

• For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Children
  • Exercise

• My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Friends

• I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Relationship

• My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Dad

• My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Good
  • Father
  • Hand

• I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

  

  David Cook
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Good
  • Ways
  • Comes

• There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • City

• One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Support

• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Persons
  • Desires

• A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Persons
  • Curiosity