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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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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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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Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
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I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.
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Jesus Christ is not a security from storms. He is the perfect security in storms
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
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Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
