Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
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If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
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They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.
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I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
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We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.
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I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
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It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.
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Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket!
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
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Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?
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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
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Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. . . . Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
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I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
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Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
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I have my hopes as to how we can grow as a basketball club.
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To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.
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You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, everywhere even the stars.
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Check your pockets, my chimney-child.
