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 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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If you really want to get over someone or something in your life, I suggest you throw on some Ivy Queen. She will have you feeling extra bossy.
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.
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I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.
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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
