Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
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Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
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I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.
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I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
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It is actually quite exciting when you're flying headfirst into a barrier-the initial part, the initial part is actually quite fun, especially when you hit the gravel trap and you get some air, and then you see it coming and you think 'erk-it's gonna hurt!'
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I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.
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Hillary Clinton is in political trouble and perhaps even legal trouble over her use of private e-mail accounts and bypassing government-issued accounts containing substantial amounts of information that belongs to the federal government. But ultimately, I don't think this latest controversy will hurt her presidential ambitions.
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It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.
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I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.
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Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
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Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.
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Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
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Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
