Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
Vince Vaughn
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
Naomi Klein
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
Dan Gilbert
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Patrick Dempsey
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
Mamata Banerjee
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
Taya Kyle
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
Garret Dillahunt
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
Salman Rushdie
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
Karl Rove
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. Abrams
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
Walter O'Brien
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
Yoko Ono
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May Sarton
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The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
Don Nelson
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Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.
Catherynne M. Valente
