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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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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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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Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.
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Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
