Judy Blume Quotes

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

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• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
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• The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
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• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
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• When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
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• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
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• I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

  

  Manny Montana
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• When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

  

  Francois Hollande
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• The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.

  

  Jay London
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• You don't develop good teeth by eating mush.

  

  Earl Blaik
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• We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

  

  Fritz Todt
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• I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

  

  Judy Blume
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