Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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You give before you get.
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Read each tweet about 95 times before you send it. Look at every Instagram post about 95 times before you send it.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'
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Change before you have to.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
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If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.
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You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.
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Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.
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Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity.
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No one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.
