Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
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Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
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I believe that when the collective, as a whole, when people as a whole realize that we are everywhere, that we are your children and we are your mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, that we have been with you and among you and we are you, we have been this whole time, that that’s the moment when the myths and the bullying and the inequality will end.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...
