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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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I'll play if I'm playing well. But if I'm playing half-crappy and wear myself out, I'll take time off.
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Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.
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The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
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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.