Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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I write what I write.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.
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September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn’t simply knocked silly by her fall.
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Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.
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Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
