Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
Abigail Washburn
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
Gail Sheehy
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
Pat Buchanan
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
Uday Kotak
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
Carine Roitfeld
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
Vincent Cassel
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
Ken Thompson
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
Saint Augustine
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I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.
Nadya Suleman
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
Ben Lerner