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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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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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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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic 'Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to 'just cheer up') have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.
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Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
