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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The sinews of war are infinite money.
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It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.
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We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we've created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.
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The fitness industry has long thrived off the well-intended coming through their doors and signing up with dreams of self-improvement, only to fade into their couches. Those who stick with it often feel like hamsters on treadmills.
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My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
