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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You Always knew that Just One word Would Dry up all My Tears
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Factory farming is terrible for the environment - not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.
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No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!
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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.
