Judy Tenuta quote: "Nothing makes my day more than when someone comes up to me and says I bring them joy. That's why I do it, to make people laugh their butts off and forget about their problems."

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.
JUDY TENUTA

How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit suicide?
JUDY TENUTA

This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I ...
JUDY TENUTA

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said 'Just wait.'
JUDY TENUTA

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.
JUDY BLUME

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recomm...
JUDY COLLINS

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the go...
JUDY WOODRUFF

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
JUDY SHEINDLIN

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...
JUDY BLUME

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who w...
JUDY GARLAND

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
JUDY GARLAND

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
JUDY BLUME

Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways t...
JUDY AYDELOTT

The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The tro...
JUDY AYDELOTT

Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,
JUDY ANDERSON

They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share f...
JUDY ANDERSON

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it...
JUDY BLUME

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recor...
JUDY COLLINS

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
JUDY PARFITT

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying...
JUDY PARFITT

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.
JUDY PARFITT

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That wo...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: &...
JUDY HORACEK

If you look at some of my stuff, the syntax is almost nonexistent. You don't have normal sentences, ...
JUDY ROITMAN

He struck me many times,
JUDY GARLAND

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is su...
JUDY GARLAND

I'm the original take-orders girl.
JUDY GARLAND

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
JUDY GARLAND

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People ...
JUDY GARLAND

They certainly don't want to be drawing comparisons with the star-studded Diana and Charles visit in...
JUDY WADE

I see a spaceship taking off.
JUDY GENSHAFT

Smoking is absolutely a personal decision, and one that everyone knows is bad for your health. And e...
JUDY CARTER

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents...
JUDY CARTER

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
JUDY CARTER

This first confirmed case means we're more aggressively following up on the contacts we've had with ...
JUDY FRIEDERICHS

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges
JUDY COLLINS

Those who would challenge or ban a book have to find out about it first,
JUDY BLUME

Don't buy anything controversial. We don't want any trouble in our community.
JUDY BLUME

And our volunteers don't just go in and read. They bring them presents, they bring them treats.
JUDY HILLBERG

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best ...
JUDY BLUME

This is Camilla's biggest challenge in six months of marriage. She has got to make the Americans lov...
JUDY WADE

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
JUDY GARLAND

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.
JUDY GARLAND

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as ...
JUDY HORACEK

A good writer is always a people watcher.
JUDY BLUME

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
JUDY HOLLIDAY

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast c...
JUDY GOLD

just as soon as they send us the equipment we're hoping in about a month.
JUDY DAVIS

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it w...
JUDY DAVIS

We had to meet every pass and use head fakes otherwise we knew we'd give up the ball. We didn't alwa...
JUDY VOGT

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to ge...
JUDY HAYLES

I ask that you vote to return the unused amount from the building construction fund to the taxpayers...
JUDY HANSEN

You've got to lighten up because our lives are jokes, ... My whole idea is that we just have to acce...
JUDY CARTER

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.
JUDY BLUME

I've sold to Japan, China, England, Italy, I think, Switzerland, Scotland.
JUDY WILLIAMS

Now, I can go to lunch.
JUDY DEAN

Because there was no more money.
JUDY MCDONALD

I figured they are deeply sorry. He hurt his family. It's not just one-sided.
JUDY MCDONALD

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live t...
JUDY COLLINS

I don't know where my songs come from . . . If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed o...
JUDY COLLINS

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. I call them part of the joy of...
JUDY COLLINS

My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum...
JUDY BLUME

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my ...
JUDY JOHNSON

Our big project is the Golden Goose Thrift shop. It has truly been the golden goose that has laid th...
JUDY SMITH

With a long distant friend, I enjoy changing this obstacle into an opportunity by creating annual 'f...
JUDY DIPPEL

Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are...
JUDY CORNISH

It sounds odd, but we've grown so accustomed to the place.
DAISY JUDY

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that ...
JUDY BLUME

Our tournament is great, because you can come and get up close to the pros and get autographs after ...
JUDY MCDERMOTT

To talk less and be a better listener is the lifelong quest of a good friend.
JUDY DIPPEL

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and ...
JUDY POLUMBAUM

This is apparently a neighborhood feud. This is not the Ku Klux Klan.
JUDY ORIHUELA

I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walki...
JUDY BLUNDELL

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on the...
JUDY BIGGERT

I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find mys...
JUDY GREER

Vanessa was throwing really well coming into the game and we wanted to see how she would handle a ga...
JUDY SHAUBACH

It's a big fundraiser, but it's more for exposure. Hopefully, people will like what we're doing and ...
JUDY NACHAZEL

Once he was rescued, then we had to arrest him.
JUDY ORIHUELA

It's too soon to say whether we are going to get involved. We're just going to check it out.
JUDY ORIHUELA

Typically, individuals are allowed to make donations not exceeding 50 percent of their adjusted gros...
JUDY MONAHAN

It's for people who would rather not have that stress.
JUDY MILLER

Because the nations poor are often ignored,
JUDY MILLER

They have a little over 1 million square feet, with another building going up. We have close to 12 m...
JUDY MENDENHALL

The purpose of the program is to bring education, information, entertainment, physical fitness and w...
JUDY NATION

People outside of Virginia are not as emphatically enthusiastic about the anniversary as those insid...
JUDY RANDALL

I don't say this lightly: Louisiana has emerged as a model for juvenile justice systems in this coun...
JUDY PRESTON

It's kind of like having in-house consultants. We're providing the same service, we're just not gett...
JUDY PRESTON

I asked if he knew who [Mississippi poet] Etheridge Knight was. He said no, and I told him until you...
JUDY PEISER

I'm taking this further and I'm am looking at all my options. They haven't heard the end of me.
JUDY MOTA

Years later, we added up the time we had spent together before we got married and discovered that it...
JUDY MORGAN

It's not a true replica of the Lunts' gardens because some plants aren't available anymore and newer...
JUDY MCNAMARA

Last year, every one of our [high school] seniors went on to college.
JUDY OSTERHAGE

[It is high praise for Daniel when she is compared to her idol.] I've always thought [Daniel's] was ...
JUDY RANKIN

I think that a successful project like this will help revitalize the community. And the community ha...
JUDY RENO

This the first time we've seen a party in North America like this.
JUDY REBICK

I just thought it would be a way to encourage the life skills in a real-life situation.
JUDY COKER

This house basically fell between the cracks. It's a site of national importance.
JUDY CHRISTENSEN

They're more in Washington than here, and with their daughter leaving soon for college, they just do...
JUDY COOPER

So many people have told me how important it is to have the Jamboree. We see so many people who are ...
JUDY CORNETT

I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT

We would have been glad to support his cause. Over the years, we've donated money and our employees ...
JUDY CHONG

We put signs up to let customers know and let them appreciate our efforts. We've also built an aware...
JUDY CHONG

Getting a handle on this budget is as hard and elusive as nailing Jell-o to a tree.
JUDY COX

He was just always so concerned about if I was having a good time.
JUDY CRIST

Even if it were a little in favor of the man, I?d hire the woman. It?s just much simpler. There?s so...
JUDY SAMAHA

He was a very nice guy, funny. Everybody liked Daniel because he was just funny.
JUDY SHEPHERD

Hate language in the school hallways is huge. These students are too often the target of name-callin...
JUDY SHEPARD

When you call someone a 'fag,' it identifies them with a group, a group that in today's climate is o...
JUDY SHEPARD

If even one family can avoid getting that phone call, in the middle of the night, because of this le...
JUDY SHEPARD

Last week you said in the debate that you opposed the Kennedy hate crime bill,
JUDY SHEPARD

This is a big first step in helping to provide the LRN labs with FDA cleared assays. The work done a...
JUDY SHELDON

Nicole did a nice job at the plate today. She came up with clutch hits when we needed them.
JUDY SHAUBACH

I wanted something in the hallway to generate an interest in art, while leaving a legacy of the eigh...
JUDY RUD

It may cut the after-school program for the middle schools in January. But we are hoping that the co...
JUDY RUBIN

(In the rural West) the kids don't get the backing or support they need. And there are less resource...
JUDY STONE

We had to adjust our milking schedule to make it to the kids' things.
JUDY SCHWARTZ

Probably over the summer, you'll see cranes in the area.
JUDY BRESELOR

I don't find it acceptable. It's really got to go before the Planning Board. I had some issues with ...
JUDY BRESELOR

When we were competing, Rolex did a print ad with us, and Kellogg's put us on a cereal box. But ther...
JUDY BLUMBERG

Even though our father left us, she never said a word against him.
JUDY CAUGHRAN

We have a lot of people coming here with no experience,
JUDY BROWN

Comedy industry people, like club owners, comedians, managers, bookers and the like, all know it's h...
JUDY BROWN

I've never seen anything like this.
JUDY BURKETT

This caught us all by surprise.
JUDY BURKETT

This is a good way for the students to learn about veterans and how they fought to preserve our coun...
JUDY ARMSTRONG

This is one of the events that the students look forward to, it gives them a patriotic feeling to kn...
JUDY ARMSTRONG

This way, there will be some transition, and new principals will have input on budgets and what's go...
JUDY BURNS

I was diagnosed with cervical cancer when Leanne was at boot camp.
JUDY DOLECKI

It was the toughest time in her life. At times she was sad, and at times she was happy.
JUDY DOLECKI

She was our heroine. She made two of the birdie putts.
JUDY DEAN

Cut out biscuits between meals. Eat only three meals a day, and have smaller portions.
JUDY DAVIE

I'm probably not as excited about HD radio as others have been. I fear that HD is more for Wall Stre...
JUDY ELLIS

It's easier to figure out what car is making the noise.
JUDY ELLIS

It evolved that any child we could take out of institutionalized care, while waiting for adoption, c...
JUDY ELKINS

Well, yeah we do. We've got friends all over the United States.
JUDY DICKSON

I have always loved to feed people. I'm an artist, and the creative side in cooking appealed to me.
JUDY DESANTIS

With what Louisiana has gone through in the last few months, the disasters that have hit, the state ...
JUDY DANIELS

We really pride ourselves that people usually go away feeling a lot better going away than when they...
JUDY YODER

I think it's just unfortunate how stressed out people get over their taxes.
JUDY YODER

One of the first things was these little tape measures. Advertising tape measures that I picked up a...
JUDY WILLIAMS

It's much easier to get your account information the old-fashioned way (on paper) than it is online.
JUDY WICKS

The people left here are so excited to see you and have something to eat.
JUDY WEST

Things are so chaotic down there that governments are asking people to stop sending items,
JUDY WHITE

We will have a food truck there, so we hope everyone will drive through in the morning and get coffe...
JUDY WHITE

The government depends on us to give them information on how many families are here even if they don...
JUDY WHITE

This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.
JUDY WHITE

Of course, I hear that all the time from parents. But I really did need some help.
JUDY WARREN

Just when we thought it was over.
JUDY GARVEY

This is not a one-time thing for Martin. It is a pattern of caring and kindness.
JUDY GRESSER

We went on this journey, ... and whether we were supposed to laugh, be happy, have a sad moment, it ...
JUDY GREER

When I came to the University of Alabama in 1996, I was given all the tools to develop the volleybal...
JUDY GREEN

We were just sitting there trying to figure out what we were going to do one moment to the next, one...
JUDY HARTNESS

We have this romantic myth about having sex, and the minute things don't work like they used to, the...
JUDY HARRIS

All through school, we are building on those concepts of democracy.
JUDY TRUJILLO

I don't think sheep are going to be gone in five years, but we're trying not to drop the ball on the...
JUDY VISTY

Many people like to eat sardines with their bones, which can be a good source of calcium as well as ...
JUDY THOMPSON

My father always liked to have her around. He was so proud of how she looked. She was so pretty, sma...
JUDY TESSIER

We'll be using Java Enterprise System for identity management and portal services.
JUDY TENZER

How many people make that? Not that many. People working in the hospitality industry and in our stor...
JUDY SWANSON

People think apples have to be pretty. Looking for the perfect plastic apple ruined antique apples. ...
JUDY STONE

I can't go to Auburn to stay with you with that snake there.
JUDY WEBSTER

The hospital is part of the community and maintains the sense of community. The doctors and staff me...
JUDY MARTIN

We packed up Sunday (Aug. 28), the day before the hurricane hit, and it ended up taking 12 hours to ...
JUDY MALO

When you think about the demographics, the people who are travelling and have the money to travel ar...
JUDY MACDONALD

Consumers all over the world will be able to flip open their phones and see their favorite Warner Mu...
JUDY MCGRATH

The economic impact, obviously, is enormous for the area. The national television coverage is for al...
JUDY MCDERMOTT

You've had to stay. You've had to stay to watch what went on because we'd seen kids coming across th...
JUDY MAZULAITIS

I had one new couple who had $20,000 in credit card debt. They couldn't make their monthly payments.
JUDY MARTINDALE

Katie was happy and energetic.
JUDY LAMBERT

It stinks. I just wanted us to all be on the same time. What's wrong with the whole state being on o...
JUDY LAMBERT

The recognition GE received this week reflects that 'imagination at work' is more than a tagline for...
JUDY HU

We are in a position right now of already having to rethink our budget estimate for 2006.
JUDY JACOBS

Look at our homes, we're not fancy. But we don't need sidewalks. If people want fancy, they can go t...
JUDY JACKSON

In 1981, Matilda had her first filly foal and everything developed from there.
JUDY JACKSON

There will be more and more people who need these features.
JUDY LEITERMAN

We started with an oncology nurse, working part time out of her home. Then we could provide enough s...
JUDY LAWRENCE

Managed care has cut services, people spend less time in the hospital, and there is not the support ...
JUDY LAWRENCE

There's far less overhead, no inventory, and, [because] we're using a technology infrastructure that...
JUDY KIRKPATRICK

When it came down to a tight match, ... Chris was the one demanding everyone step up because he does...
JUDY KENNEDY

Then we lose the capability of bringing school groups back together. We discussed this for weeks, an...
JUDY KELLER

Out of consideration for his children, which, as always, remains his paramount concern, he is not go...
JUDY KATZ

The couple have agreed to an amicable settlement.
JUDY KATZ

We were very pleased to provide seven out of 10 pieces. Because that's seven shows. That's good for ...
JUDY JOSLIN

I think when they found out we also had a Fort Lauderdale location, they knew they could get what th...
JUDY JOSLIN

See, it's all worth this.
JUDY JONES

Their parents would never be able to afford $30- or $40- or $50-an-hour tutoring.
JUDY KLINEK

Most of them care. A lot of them are in it for the profit.
JUDY KLINEK

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
JUDY BLUME

Modern-Day Parenting is no joke. For starters, no one takes you seriously unless you have a fancy pa...
JUDY BALAN

If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
JUDY GARLAND

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
JUDY GARLAND

Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.
JUDY MOREO

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
JUDY GARLAND

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting N...
JUDY BLUME

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, b...
JUDY BIGGERT

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by r...
JUDY GARLAND

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of ...
JUDY GARLAND

Behind every cloud is another cloud.
JUDY GARLAND

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the p...
JUDY BLUME

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a...
JUDY BLUME

Nothing makes my day more than when someone comes up to me and says I bring them joy. That's why I do it, to make people laugh their butts off and forget about their problems.

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Nothing makes my day more than when someone comes up to me and says I bring them joy. That's why I do it, to make people laugh their butts off and forget about their problems.

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