Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
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As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.
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Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.1
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
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I have a really feminine voice, but I also feel quite powerful when I write. So my songs feel heavy, and that's how Banks sounds. It's a really short, powerful sound. It almost sounds masculine, and I like having that dichotomy.
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To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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It was like a cliche for the parents in my hometown to let their kids watch 'Friends.' I had no interest at first, because I could not understand a word.
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Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.
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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
