Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
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There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
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Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.
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When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.
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I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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When I was four, five, my granddad took me over to the park to play basketball. There was no way I was getting a ball into the net, but he said we stayed there until I got it in. I always remember that. He used to say to me, 'When you think you're going to do something, you won't ever stop.' I think that's the person I've been all my life.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I wrote 'Zeuglodon' on a whim. I found myself writing the voice of an 11-year-old girl. I don't know why.
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War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
