Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby Baby Carrier. To me, it seems like a natural way to hold the baby close to you. I also love the burp cloths, bibs, and swaddle blankets from Aden and Anais. Their stuff is organic and pure.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
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He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.
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'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.
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I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.
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I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'
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The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear war the first blow may be the decisive one and render null and void years of work and billions spent on creation of an anti-missile system.
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I didn't start making music in order to be famous.
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I've always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing.
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.
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But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
