Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
Indra Nooyi -
'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
Tate Donovan -
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm a man without a corporation.
Paddy Chayefsky -
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
Damon Lindelof -
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx -
I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
Rachel McAdams -
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
Kaskade -
Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Cricket is my first love.
Yohan Blake -
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
Malcolm McDowell -
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've spent many a long flight talking to flight attendants, trying to understand what kind of employment experience underlies such a consistent lack of concern for customers.
Patrick Lencioni -
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor -
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
Lara Stone -
I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
Rachel Sklar -
Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.
Lily Collins -
I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.
Oprah Winfrey -
A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
Catherynne M. Valente