Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I'm not a party person.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
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Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.
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An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.
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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
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You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
