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.'
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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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.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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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.'"
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You can never have enough talent.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
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Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
