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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And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
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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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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
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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 swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing.
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There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
