Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
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But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
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Sydney: proposing to Mo Will you do me the honor of paradoxically reinscribing and destabilizing hegemonic discourse with me?
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
