Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

Catherynne M. Valente

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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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• 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 am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

  

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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 think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

  

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• I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.

  

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• If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.

  

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• Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

  

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• A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Play
  • Moral
  • Child