Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.
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And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.
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What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by 'a few bad apples,' it was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy that has dismantled those wise constraints and has made war on America's checks and balances.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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By the word 'liberty' they meant liberty for property, not liberty for persons.
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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.