Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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It costs you something to do good!
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When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.
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We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.
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I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
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Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.
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I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and then you get the confetti icing, which is really hard to find sometimes. It's really hard to explain to people, because it's not icing with sprinkles on top. It's icing that actually has candies inside of it. It's Funfetti icing.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.
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Music... is... a core element of our species, an activity that paved the way for more complex behaviors such as language, large-scale cooperative undertakings, and the passing down of important information from one generation to the next.
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No one’s good just from being born any place
