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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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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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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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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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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I believe education is much more important than we assume.
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It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
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The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
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I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
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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
