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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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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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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I i.e., God have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.
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I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
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I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.
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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.
