Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I try to win every tournament.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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If I was to pick out a new instrument to learn how to play, I thought the didgeridoo would be cool and not a lot of people play it.
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Even in Kitty Kelley's book, which is so negative, they talk about, as with all first ladies, that Nancy Reagan is constantly around to take photo ops with kids.
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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.
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This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.
