Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.
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The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.
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Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
