Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.
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Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.
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“When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. I went to the best schools, and got the best girls. My intelligence quotient was well above average; and yet I could be a rebellious, troublesome punk who brought more than a little anxiety to my parents.”
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I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
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I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.
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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
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Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.
