Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
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I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.
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Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.
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People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
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Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
