Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
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One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.
