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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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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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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Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.
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There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
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I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
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Whether it's developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.
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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
