Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
