Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian McShane
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Walter Dean Myers
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
Damian Marley
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
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Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
C. S. Lewis
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Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
Dalai Lama
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I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.
Decca Aitkenhead
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Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be viable. As the industrial workforce shrinks, the social model founded on it will go, too.
Kersti Kaljulaid
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung
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There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
Catherynne M. Valente
