Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?
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Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
