Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
The point's not what it costs; it's what it costs you. Everything you have. That's my price, that's my prize, that's my ransom, and that's my rune. The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.

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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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There is too little courtship in the world.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
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If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.
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We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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The point's not what it costs; it's what it costs you. Everything you have. That's my price, that's my prize, that's my ransom, and that's my rune. The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.