Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
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I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.
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We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
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Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
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Short ribs in the middle of a hamburger? That was pretty groundbreaking.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
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When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
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Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
