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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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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We have this fascination that more is better, and we - what we learned was more isn't better ; that more care can actually hurt you. That fascination with the quick fix is often hurting us. One-third of health-care spending doesn't even improve health care.
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The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!
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I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.
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If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.
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One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.
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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
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Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
