Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
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Be brave, be bold, be free.
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Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.
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I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.
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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
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...the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
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I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
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I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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As I write, I try to be the character.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
