Judy Blume Quotes
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
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The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
