Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
