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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Generally, I just think there is a real lacking in men knowing how to hit on women.
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I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
