Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
