Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
"Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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I trust no one totally.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
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The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
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"Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"
