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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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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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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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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You can never have enough talent.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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“Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
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If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
