Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
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I have always been a reserved and conservative person.
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If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.
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I'm running because we need change.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
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Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
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I use pure acetone Nail Polish Remover from Nails Inc. to really strip the nail. It's actually important to dehydrate your nail a little bit to get rid of all of the oil before you put color on; then the color will really stick. Then, I use OPI Bond Aid. It's a liquid dehydrator that you paint onto each nail.
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Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
