Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.