Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
Dan Colen
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Walter Winchell
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
G-Eazy
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Harold Rosenberg
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
Abigail Disney
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
Orlando Bloom
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You can never have enough talent.
Pat Riley
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Queen Elizabeth II
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
Kacy Catanzaro
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
Abraham Lincoln
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
Sarah Vowell
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I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Jacques-Louis David
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The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.
David Bowie
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The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
Thomas Sowell
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
Catherynne M. Valente
