Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
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I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
