Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
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There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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You know I'm weak on good looks.
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Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
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I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
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Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.
