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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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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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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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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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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I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
